It's pretty typical for Apple to claim a first while not actually having been first
Actually, it's not. I'll wait while you go and find some actual examples...
Came up empty, huh? In fact, what's common is for bashers to claim Apple claimed a first, when Apple never did claim a first. For example, Apple never claimed they invented the touch-screen tablet computer. Yet you say they did. Why?
The researchers will present their findings at the Usenix Security Symposium,
At first I read that as "Unisex Security Symposium" and wondered why they would have a technical symposium for only one gender. On closer inspection I saw that was not the case, but that only raises more questions, like why the hell would they give their symposium a name that's an anagram of unisex?
It doesn't make it any less likely than anyone else's claim if it's not out of Apple's mouth.
Yes. it does. The idea that an industrial designer has complete control over the engineering department is a pretty astounding claim.
I don't see where Ives didn't have some input to the design of the product.
Of course not, but that's very different than what you wrote, which is that Ives just sets the design, and doesn't work with engineers at all, and that engineers don't get any say. From the many interviews we've seen with Ives and Apple engineers, it's well known they work together on projects, it's not a matter of one dictating to the other.
It was likely that he drew up the design for the product and told engineering that they were constrained to what was on his design papers down to the every angle and curve regardless of how functional it actually was.
No, that's not likely at all. What's your source for that claim?
When people joke about prison rape it's not because they think that rape is funny, but because they know that rape is horrible and it is a way to cope with it.
Really? What's your basis for this assertion? Most people I've seen joking about prison rape are very immature, and don't really have a conception of how horrible rape is.
I agree, it's not fine to wish someone to be raped, but as a joke that does not affect what will happen to him in jail...
Actually, it does. It's because people treat it as a joke that this continues to be a problem. If it were taken seriously, then there would be more efforts made to stop it.
For many years now PC cases have included 3 or 4 or even more external 5.25 inch drive bays
That doesn't sound very typical. How many cases actually come with external drive cases as standard? If you can't think of what to do with the external cases, then just buy a standard case that's just a case.
Do you complain when people call a video blog a vlog as well?
Yes I do, because "vlog" sounds stupid, and "blog" is already one of the stupidest words ever created. It takes real effort to come up with a word that sounds even worse than "blog."
It depends, on whether some idiot decides to paint on the sides of the balloons characters no one over 30 has ever seen with their middle fingers extended.
So, who has their middle finger(s) extended? The idiot painting the balloon, the characters painted on the balloon, or nobody over 30?
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Ah, but what you forget is that this IS the sideshow/carnival. If the people are up in arms over some war a third of the way around the world, they tend to forget about issues that are a little closer to home.
This issue is as close to home as it gets. It's about US soldiers slaughtering innocent people. That speaks to our core values as a nation and as human beings. Hardly a sideshow.
It is already out in the open. You can't put the genie back in the bottle
Well, yeah, but you can always distract the public with sideshows and carnivals. People quickly forget, and there are new people being born all the time who have never seen it, while the old people who have seen it die and are forgotten.
They are now adults, remember. So yeah, the games are certainly old school.
Someone born in 1996 is not an adult, s/he is only 13-14. I think that end of the scale is pushing it a bit. We were beginning to see 3D accelerator cards in 1996. Starcraft came out in 1998, and Starcraft II hasn't really added anything of significance in those 12 years.
But Chinatown Fair has become a center for all the outcasts in the city to bond over their shared love for a good 20-punch combo and "old school" games that more popular arcades don't stock anymore — the classic Street Fighter II from 1991 and King of Fighters 1996,
Games from 1991-1996 are considered "old school" now? A person born in those years would be described as very young.
First: A sign on front door that says, "Rattlesnakes for sale: $25.00"
What's that going to do? You're just going to get lots of annoying people knocking on your door enquiring about the rattlesnakes for sale.
Second: Pistol. Taurus makes a gun called the Judge that fires 45 cal bullets and 410 shotgun shells in the same chambers. Not my favorite gun, but it does lend itself to someone who wants a varied approach.
So, is this some kind of autonomous pistol that can protect your house while you are not home?
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It's pretty typical for Apple to claim a first while not actually having been first
Actually, it's not. I'll wait while you go and find some actual examples...
Came up empty, huh? In fact, what's common is for bashers to claim Apple claimed a first, when Apple never did claim a first. For example, Apple never claimed they invented the touch-screen tablet computer. Yet you say they did. Why?
It's the "squeaky wheel" principle, but with an amplifier.
Sorry, that patent is already held by Celine Dion.
The researchers will present their findings at the Usenix Security Symposium,
At first I read that as "Unisex Security Symposium" and wondered why they would have a technical symposium for only one gender. On closer inspection I saw that was not the case, but that only raises more questions, like why the hell would they give their symposium a name that's an anagram of unisex?
Well, in this case it would be Librarians of Congress with tooth decay per fortnight.
It doesn't make it any less likely than anyone else's claim if it's not out of Apple's mouth.
Yes. it does. The idea that an industrial designer has complete control over the engineering department is a pretty astounding claim.
I don't see where Ives didn't have some input to the design of the product.
Of course not, but that's very different than what you wrote, which is that Ives just sets the design, and doesn't work with engineers at all, and that engineers don't get any say. From the many interviews we've seen with Ives and Apple engineers, it's well known they work together on projects, it's not a matter of one dictating to the other.
It was likely that he drew up the design for the product and told engineering that they were constrained to what was on his design papers down to the every angle and curve regardless of how functional it actually was.
No, that's not likely at all. What's your source for that claim?
Same reason everyone uses *zilla to describe something big. Its part of modern culture.
If that's the case, then why does nobody refer to my penis as *zilla?
External as in external access.
So, if "external access" was meant, then why was that not said? "External" means that it is outside of the case.
Maybe those running Linux didn't want to goto jail
I would think that those running Linux would be smart enough to avoid a GOTO routine.
Apple is now the big man on campus?
When people joke about prison rape it's not because they think that rape is funny, but because they know that rape is horrible and it is a way to cope with it.
Really? What's your basis for this assertion? Most people I've seen joking about prison rape are very immature, and don't really have a conception of how horrible rape is.
I agree, it's not fine to wish someone to be raped, but as a joke that does not affect what will happen to him in jail...
Actually, it does. It's because people treat it as a joke that this continues to be a problem. If it were taken seriously, then there would be more efforts made to stop it.
You've never seen a PC case with bays for CD/DVD-ROM drives on the front?
Yes, but how are those external? Those are internal bays.
The more computers act like magical black boxes, the harder it becomes using them.
If by harder," you mean "easier." Other than that, you're completely correct.
For many years now PC cases have included 3 or 4 or even more external 5.25 inch drive bays
That doesn't sound very typical. How many cases actually come with external drive cases as standard? If you can't think of what to do with the external cases, then just buy a standard case that's just a case.
Do you complain when people call a video blog a vlog as well?
Yes I do, because "vlog" sounds stupid, and "blog" is already one of the stupidest words ever created. It takes real effort to come up with a word that sounds even worse than "blog."
It depends, on whether some idiot decides to paint on the sides of the balloons characters no one over 30 has ever seen with their middle fingers extended.
So, who has their middle finger(s) extended? The idiot painting the balloon, the characters painted on the balloon, or nobody over 30?
Don't hire the ones that work for Slashdot.
Slashdot has editors??
Ah, but what you forget is that this IS the sideshow/carnival. If the people are up in arms over some war a third of the way around the world, they tend to forget about issues that are a little closer to home.
This issue is as close to home as it gets. It's about US soldiers slaughtering innocent people. That speaks to our core values as a nation and as human beings. Hardly a sideshow.
It is already out in the open. You can't put the genie back in the bottle
Well, yeah, but you can always distract the public with sideshows and carnivals. People quickly forget, and there are new people being born all the time who have never seen it, while the old people who have seen it die and are forgotten.
A person born in those years can VOTE.
So, are you saying that video games born in that year shouldn't be allowed to vote?
And it does so by using the momentum of a tail that swings like a grandfather clock's pendulum."
As opposed to some other kind of pendulum?
They are now adults, remember. So yeah, the games are certainly old school.
Someone born in 1996 is not an adult, s/he is only 13-14. I think that end of the scale is pushing it a bit. We were beginning to see 3D accelerator cards in 1996. Starcraft came out in 1998, and Starcraft II hasn't really added anything of significance in those 12 years.
But Chinatown Fair has become a center for all the outcasts in the city to bond over their shared love for a good 20-punch combo and "old school" games that more popular arcades don't stock anymore — the classic Street Fighter II from 1991 and King of Fighters 1996,
Games from 1991-1996 are considered "old school" now? A person born in those years would be described as very young.
First: A sign on front door that says, "Rattlesnakes for sale: $25.00"
What's that going to do? You're just going to get lots of annoying people knocking on your door enquiring about the rattlesnakes for sale.
Second: Pistol. Taurus makes a gun called the Judge that fires 45 cal bullets and 410 shotgun shells in the same chambers. Not my favorite gun, but it does lend itself to someone who wants a varied approach.
So, is this some kind of autonomous pistol that can protect your house while you are not home?