Besides the obvious "protecting revenue" reason, I think there is a very fundamental principle at work here. Apple is obsessed with usability. They spend a lot of time on proprietary designs to achieve this goal. The experience with media/computer/device/store they want to control so that it is all a single, logical, and usbale experience. Interop with things not under their control will introduce usability differences and eventually destroy the overall design - in their minds.
Jef Raskin was one of their early champions of usability. He has a great book too. I think if you understand their design culture you can understand their single-mindedness on a closed system.
Now. I support interop. But I do have respect for those who take design and usability seriously.
My home address is not randomly assigned to me every time I come home from work. Plus, there is quite a bit of information around mortgages, tax documents, etc that tie me to my home address.
Sorry, but the link between IP address and a person is pretty weak. Under certain circumstances it may be possible to prove a link between IP and PII. But as a general rule it is not as strong as home address.
I agree. The only thing they are saying is that you will not be considered well if you ever want to go back there. They would get themselves into trouble if they shared performance with third parties. To be honest, something made you want to leave. Whatever that thing is will still be there in the future. So it sounds like returning would be out. Still, people move in and out of positions and in all likelyhood any future application you might have with them culd be considered. They woudl want to know more details about the statement. If you say what you said in your post I'd say you might be OK.
In a typical college recruiting scenario the potential employer would not go through the time and expense to pull a credit report or criminal history. At the point of recruitment they would not have permission to do so and would not want to, frankly. However, a quick scan of the internet is a pretty easy, low cost check. So might you not get a call to attend a recruiting event due to this type of screen? perhaps. If you get to the point where you have applied and have given permission to pull records, then the blog is moot. I guess the only thing you could do if you receive a rejection of some sort is to follow up. make sure they have averything they need. Maybe they just didn't have your phone #.
An antire group of people devoted to tracking and reporting on the whereabouts of the president. They could hire pundits to theorize on why he is there, film him getting in the car, getting out of the car. They could even predict where he's going to be, like "The president will be in Miami next Tuesday to talk to the guy in that place". Now that would be really freaky.
There is a difference between sharing your home address and sharing your credit card number. The post is suggesting that the merchant shared only the credit card number with Samsung. I'm saying that is highly unlikely. I agree with the poster below suggesting it was Best Buy that sent the disk or shared information on home address with Samsung.
It seems unlikely Best Buy or any other merchant would share your credit card information wiht Samsung as this would violate their agreement with the card associations (e.g. Visa, Mastercard). I also doubt a merchant woudl even chare your name with the merchant as they would want to prevent direct sales. They want you back in the store.
There is most likely some other thing at work here.
It seems strange to me that ABC would use go.com to publish news. Why not their own site? The language seemed a little bit too crazy for me to be reputable. If I had to guess, someone just pasted the ABC logo on their paranoid rants.
The agreement does not state that the physical RAM is theirs. It only states that they can monitor it and that the contents of regions may not be modified by programs other than their own.So the claim that they own the computer is a little bit of a stretch.
It's entirely possible there were a series of emails discussing his termination. The people pushing for termination lost the argument. If he was monitoring emails he could have seen this discussion.
There was an unsuccessful attempt to fire him. The article also mentions that he was essentially spying on people to learn things being said about him.
Not sure what entropy has to do with it. I always thought they used time differences in neuron spikes to cluster neurons into groups to predict behavior.
I think the diagnostic software vendor should also charge BB a restocking fee for all the software they didn't purchase. The vendor will not be able to seel the used software at the original price.
Neuroscientists and pharmacologists studying the brain would define addiction in a way that states that the motivation to do a certain thing is strong enough that it is impairing the normal decision making process. Normal being a vague term that encompasses many things. An exmaple of abnormal decision making would be to get divorced in order to do the thing, or not eat. There is an area of your brain that is responsible for motivation and another area is responsible for reward. The two are linked. One becomes more motivated to do a task when the reward is better than expected. Drugs trick the brain into doing this by screwing with the reward signal. That's why you will find people are motivated to do drugs, but who will honestly tell you they do not like them. A similar thing could be happening here. The motivation to do something on a computer could be pushed into the abnormal range just as drugs could do it. I suppose you woudl have to argue that these people have abnormal rewards associated with their computer activities. The definition of addiction, however, would be the same.
"Think Different" meant "Think our stuff is different than their stuff", "Think we are different from them". It wasn't asking the reader of the add to think differently.
The pun, if you want to call it that, is that it plays off the Grammar Nazi's desire to corrrect the alredy correct sentance. That sorta makes one think.
A study, paid for by whomever, certainly could be biased and get published somewhere. However, this is one of the toughest journals out there. It's pretty difficult to just slip in a neatly packaged point of view without serious science to back it up.
Actually, the joke is on Missouri. There is nothing funny about making a movie in Bulgaria. It is a great country - my wife is from there and I've been there many times. But history has produced an economy in Bulgaria that is quite different, and not as expensive, from the US. So the joke is that Missouri, basically, is in the same economic state as a former communist country.
I would look into the book by Robert O'Harrow Jr entitled "No Place to Hide". Good read so far. William Saphire had a review of it and another book on surveilence in last weeks New York Times Book Review.
I bet they will still let people in without a passport. Only Americans would be naive enough to leave their country without one. Thus proof of citizenship!
Actaully, This experiment has been done previously - perhaps the manipulation was not as complex. Population vectors have been in use for quite a long time. Also, rats are able to learn to control feeding mechanisms with their brains. So I really don;t think this says much about intelligence.
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I agree. That is why my starting point was about protecting revenue.
Besides the obvious "protecting revenue" reason, I think there is a very fundamental principle at work here. Apple is obsessed with usability. They spend a lot of time on proprietary designs to achieve this goal. The experience with media/computer/device/store they want to control so that it is all a single, logical, and usbale experience. Interop with things not under their control will introduce usability differences and eventually destroy the overall design - in their minds. Jef Raskin was one of their early champions of usability. He has a great book too. I think if you understand their design culture you can understand their single-mindedness on a closed system. Now. I support interop. But I do have respect for those who take design and usability seriously.
My home address is not randomly assigned to me every time I come home from work. Plus, there is quite a bit of information around mortgages, tax documents, etc that tie me to my home address. Sorry, but the link between IP address and a person is pretty weak. Under certain circumstances it may be possible to prove a link between IP and PII. But as a general rule it is not as strong as home address.
I agree. The only thing they are saying is that you will not be considered well if you ever want to go back there. They would get themselves into trouble if they shared performance with third parties. To be honest, something made you want to leave. Whatever that thing is will still be there in the future. So it sounds like returning would be out. Still, people move in and out of positions and in all likelyhood any future application you might have with them culd be considered. They woudl want to know more details about the statement. If you say what you said in your post I'd say you might be OK.
In a typical college recruiting scenario the potential employer would not go through the time and expense to pull a credit report or criminal history. At the point of recruitment they would not have permission to do so and would not want to, frankly. However, a quick scan of the internet is a pretty easy, low cost check. So might you not get a call to attend a recruiting event due to this type of screen? perhaps. If you get to the point where you have applied and have given permission to pull records, then the blog is moot. I guess the only thing you could do if you receive a rejection of some sort is to follow up. make sure they have averything they need. Maybe they just didn't have your phone #.
An antire group of people devoted to tracking and reporting on the whereabouts of the president. They could hire pundits to theorize on why he is there, film him getting in the car, getting out of the car. They could even predict where he's going to be, like "The president will be in Miami next Tuesday to talk to the guy in that place". Now that would be really freaky.
There is a difference between sharing your home address and sharing your credit card number. The post is suggesting that the merchant shared only the credit card number with Samsung. I'm saying that is highly unlikely. I agree with the poster below suggesting it was Best Buy that sent the disk or shared information on home address with Samsung.
It seems unlikely Best Buy or any other merchant would share your credit card information wiht Samsung as this would violate their agreement with the card associations (e.g. Visa, Mastercard). I also doubt a merchant woudl even chare your name with the merchant as they would want to prevent direct sales. They want you back in the store. There is most likely some other thing at work here.
It seems strange to me that ABC would use go.com to publish news. Why not their own site? The language seemed a little bit too crazy for me to be reputable. If I had to guess, someone just pasted the ABC logo on their paranoid rants.
The agreement does not state that the physical RAM is theirs. It only states that they can monitor it and that the contents of regions may not be modified by programs other than their own.So the claim that they own the computer is a little bit of a stretch.
It's entirely possible there were a series of emails discussing his termination. The people pushing for termination lost the argument. If he was monitoring emails he could have seen this discussion.
There was an unsuccessful attempt to fire him. The article also mentions that he was essentially spying on people to learn things being said about him.
Not sure what entropy has to do with it. I always thought they used time differences in neuron spikes to cluster neurons into groups to predict behavior.
I think the diagnostic software vendor should also charge BB a restocking fee for all the software they didn't purchase. The vendor will not be able to seel the used software at the original price.
I've tried to look up www.lp.org and tried to find the open source project regarding this LP thing. Are you sure you have the right acronym?
Neuroscientists and pharmacologists studying the brain would define addiction in a way that states that the motivation to do a certain thing is strong enough that it is impairing the normal decision making process. Normal being a vague term that encompasses many things. An exmaple of abnormal decision making would be to get divorced in order to do the thing, or not eat. There is an area of your brain that is responsible for motivation and another area is responsible for reward. The two are linked. One becomes more motivated to do a task when the reward is better than expected. Drugs trick the brain into doing this by screwing with the reward signal. That's why you will find people are motivated to do drugs, but who will honestly tell you they do not like them. A similar thing could be happening here. The motivation to do something on a computer could be pushed into the abnormal range just as drugs could do it. I suppose you woudl have to argue that these people have abnormal rewards associated with their computer activities. The definition of addiction, however, would be the same.
"Think Different" meant "Think our stuff is different than their stuff", "Think we are different from them". It wasn't asking the reader of the add to think differently. The pun, if you want to call it that, is that it plays off the Grammar Nazi's desire to corrrect the alredy correct sentance. That sorta makes one think.
I didn't realize there was anything important about baseball.
A study, paid for by whomever, certainly could be biased and get published somewhere. However, this is one of the toughest journals out there. It's pretty difficult to just slip in a neatly packaged point of view without serious science to back it up.
Actually, the joke is on Missouri. There is nothing funny about making a movie in Bulgaria. It is a great country - my wife is from there and I've been there many times. But history has produced an economy in Bulgaria that is quite different, and not as expensive, from the US. So the joke is that Missouri, basically, is in the same economic state as a former communist country.
I would look into the book by Robert O'Harrow Jr entitled "No Place to Hide". Good read so far. William Saphire had a review of it and another book on surveilence in last weeks New York Times Book Review.
I bet they will still let people in without a passport. Only Americans would be naive enough to leave their country without one. Thus proof of citizenship!
Actaully, This experiment has been done previously - perhaps the manipulation was not as complex. Population vectors have been in use for quite a long time. Also, rats are able to learn to control feeding mechanisms with their brains. So I really don;t think this says much about intelligence.
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Actually, about 32.47% of statistics are made up right on the spot.