I'll let that one slide because based on the way you spell things like "colour" or "authorised", I suspect that you live in some unfortunate part of the world. Maybe even Europe. The fact that you bought a Sony smartphone also points out to a difficult upbringing.
He was agreeing with his parent's comment, which is (rightly, IMHO) pointing out that Apple is actually going out of their way
That's pure speculation based on nothing presented in the summary or the linked article.
Here's what can be found in the linked article, though:
A scare like this happened last year. "Error 53" bricked many iPhones that had third party screen replacements. After widespread consumer outrage, Apple fixed the bug.
So you call that "going out of their way", but in the article they say "after widespread consumer outrage". This is not a subtle difference, it's called fanboism.
Agree totally -- this is Apple going out of their way to fix something that is totally not their problem.
Here's what the summary says:
So let's consider what actually happened here. iPhones that had been repaired and were in perfect working order suddenly stopped working after Apple updated its software.
I can't explain why you think Apple is the hero here, but it has nothing to do with reality.
Spot on. The phone is not the product. The phone is merely the delivery mechanism for the right to walk around with the Apple logo, and therefore it's ludicrous that someone could consider "owning" that device for a mere thousand bucks.
Non-genuine replacement displays may have compromised visual quality and may fail to work correctly.
This is the same kind of bullshit with those coffee machines that have some kind of DRM to prevent customers to buy generic pods.
At some point the douchebaggery will have to stop. With the already obscene profit margin Apple makes on the iPhone, and the hundreds of billions they have stashed abroad, they don't need this kind of extortion.
Fuck Apple and fuck every fanboi who makes apologies for their greed.
You know what I miss the most from 10 years ago? The discussion about the year of the Linux desktop.
Think I'm kidding?
With phenomenal new distros, swelling international support, and a little extra momentum from Dell, we think Linux is poised to exploit the current atmosphere of doubt surrounding Vista and pick up serious traction in '08. 'For end users here in North America, Linux poses a low barrier to entry. While many still balk at an upgrade to Vista (typically centered around cost and restrictive licensing terms), those who are curious about the open-source alternative will find few of these obstacles. And an increasingly rich array of ready-to-run software (not to mention surprisingly effective utilities that let you run many Windows apps) makes it easy switch.
which reminds me of a quote from Bill Gates: "We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten."
Remember what Microsoft attempted 15+ years ago with.Net: a single codebase and programming paradigm for multiple devices and media?
That's how countless ASP.net web developers have no idea about what happens client-side versus server-side, since they are used to simply double-click on the control and write C# or VB.Net code in the event method; the widgets themselves take care of those details like ajax or win32 api. We've seen this horrible approach leak in the NodeJS world, with things like MeteorJS where you have to check the isClient variable to know if you're client or server-side... not so different from isPostback in Asp.net. Interestingly, MeteorJS also has isServer, because as we all know, the only thing better than a boolean variable is two boolean variables with opposite meaning.
Well, Material Design is yet another take on this. One framework to rule them all, from things that can fit on your wrist to things that are bigger than your parent's first TV. Mission accomplished: it's terrible everywhere.
the bad fucking thing about this is that i have to listen some exec dolt talk about how they got some new whizwhiz wweewee guru now at gooooooooogle and how they're good at design now at gooooogle
Don't worry too much about it. Everyone can tell their products are terrible. Google is not good at design.
Compare Google maps and Bing maps. The UX on Bing maps is vastly superior. Same for Bing images. As a search engine Bing is awful but the frontend (at least for images) is much better. Even Yahoo Search gives a better experience for images than Google.
Or look at browsers. Is changing settings a delightful experience in Chrome, compared to Firefox or Safari? Absolutely not. It feels weird, you can never tell if you've looked at all the options, and when you change something it's not immediately clear if it's saved or not. These are all things that a junior designer could tell are wrong.
If you really want a scare, open the developer tools that every developer knows as F12 but that somehow Google is trying to migrate to CTRL-Shift-I. Try to find the cookies or SSL certificates. Depending on the version of Chrome, they're not gonna be in the same place. Why? What problem are they trying to solve? All that was needed in terms of features and capabilities was already present in Firebug years ago. Google is just horsing around.
Speaking of retards, have you looked in a mirror lately?
As a matter of fact I have. And do you know what I saw? The face of your mom while I was sodomizing her in your bathroom (which is the only option left since giving birth to a morbidly obese moron like you kinda ruined her cunt).
Putting someone who's not an engineer in charge of Google would be a great way to turn them into yet another IT consulting firm. An engineer with no background in IT wouldn't necessarily grok fundamental principles a la Mythical Man Month, or have the wisdom to avoid sinking money into the latest IT buzzword hype tech.
Stop kidding yourself with the techie CEO fantasy. There's been very skilled ones (like Bill Gates, who is the real deal and who did brutal code reviews while being a CEO) but there's also been ones with very shallow expertise, like Zuckerberg or Jobs, or no skills at all, like Jeff Bezos. Every success story is different.
10 seconds of googling to find tech companies that didn't have a techie founder/CEO, besides Amazon: Pinterest Snapchat Groupon Alibaba
Not sure about that. Take search for instance; pornhub is running behind in that area. They're even worse than Youtube. Just the other day I was looking for softcore midget furry domination videos, and for some reason 2/3 of the results were about stepdaughters or stepsisters.
One time a techie at work was fixing the laptop of a manager and found a directory named after a female coworker. It contained multiple p0rn images and video featuring women that somehow looked like that female coworker. I guess this is a thing for some people.
Of corse he is. What would be the fun of trolling a grammer nazi-wannabe.
The expression "grammar nazi" is interesting because:
1) actual nazis had, on average, poor grammar skills. Goebbels himself (who wanted to obtain a PhD in literature but had to fall back to literary history) wanted to become an author but his grammar was terrible. His own teacher, von Waldberg, once made fun of the fact that Goebbels was a huge fan of Dostoyevsky but never managed to write down the author's name properly.
2) nazis rarely took initiatives; they had a deeply hierarchical culture with centralized decision-making. Nazism was a textbook case of corporate statism.
Therefore, a person who engages on their own in grammatical nitpicking on the internet should not be called a "grammar nazi", but rather a "grammar vigilante", which is at the opposite end of the social spectrum.
In fact, one could argue that "grammar phony" would be an even better expression since grammatical nitpicking does not aim at correcting mistakes, but is rather a thinly veiled form of virtue signalling.
I don't think Google is evil. I think they're simply unable as an organization to deal responsibly with their own power, like a retard who happens to hold a flamethrower.
At this point pretty much anything they achieve is due to their immense wealth, not their expertise. There is no other way to explain how an online bookstore chain managed to invent and dominate cloud computing while Google had a copy of the entire internet in their immense data centers, and how a marketing company that pays engineers below market average managed to create a more robust and secure mobile operating system while Google had access to the contributions of the best open source developers in the world.
Google needs a new CEO. Someone who would put the company back on track, get rid of the social agenda and put an end to the crooked deals. Someone like Mulally, who saved Ford and managed to put the company back on the map without feeding at the public trough (unlike GM and Chrysler). Or if it was even possible, Michael Dell, who gave the finger to Wall Street and took his company private so he could stop the short-term profit game and pivot Dell toward enterprise services instead of sticking with the dying consumer PC segment.
Water above the freezing point would not explain the hole, it would merely *describe* it.
And I'm not convinced that it would even be that meaningful. For instance, it is completely possible for water temperature to be below the freezing point without freezing, especially in an environment where there is no major weather fluctuations and no major animal activity. Temperature itself does not automatically trigger the transition.
See this explanation from Wikipedia:
The melting point of water at 1 atmosphere of pressure is very close to 0 C (32 F, 273.15 K), and in the presence of nucleating substances the freezing point of water is close to the melting point, but in the absence of nucleators water can super cool to 40 C (40 F, 233 K) before freezing.
There is a famous (alleged) case of flash freeze that happened in Russia during WWII: horses found in the bottom of a frozen lake. Someone made a demonstration, see: http://www.radiolab.org/story/...
True, even the GOP tried to bend rules and kill the Trump nomination.
Now we have President Trump (which is hilarious) but at least Clinton is not in a position to use the Army, FBI, CIA and NSA as her personal servants, so we dodged the worst bullet.
Still, it would be nice to have serious candidates in the presidential race once in a while. For instance, a Romney/Sanders race would have been a great opportunity to discuss core issues instead of talking about grabbing pussies or about secretary of states who sent top secret emails over plain smtp using the Exchange server installed in her pantry.
Slashdot Mirror
You're a moron
I'll let that one slide because based on the way you spell things like "colour" or "authorised", I suspect that you live in some unfortunate part of the world. Maybe even Europe. The fact that you bought a Sony smartphone also points out to a difficult upbringing.
Good luck to you, Tiny Tim.
He was agreeing with his parent's comment, which is (rightly, IMHO) pointing out that Apple is actually going out of their way
That's pure speculation based on nothing presented in the summary or the linked article.
Here's what can be found in the linked article, though:
A scare like this happened last year. "Error 53" bricked many iPhones that had third party screen replacements. After widespread consumer outrage, Apple fixed the bug.
So you call that "going out of their way", but in the article they say "after widespread consumer outrage". This is not a subtle difference, it's called fanboism.
Here's what you say:
Agree totally -- this is Apple going out of their way to fix something that is totally not their problem.
Here's what the summary says:
So let's consider what actually happened here. iPhones that had been repaired and were in perfect working order suddenly stopped working after Apple updated its software.
I can't explain why you think Apple is the hero here, but it has nothing to do with reality.
your phone
Found the problem right here.
Spot on. The phone is not the product. The phone is merely the delivery mechanism for the right to walk around with the Apple logo, and therefore it's ludicrous that someone could consider "owning" that device for a mere thousand bucks.
Now that doesn't sound quite as bad, does it?
Yes it sounds bad. Here's what the note says:
Non-genuine replacement displays may have compromised visual quality and may fail to work correctly.
This is the same kind of bullshit with those coffee machines that have some kind of DRM to prevent customers to buy generic pods.
At some point the douchebaggery will have to stop. With the already obscene profit margin Apple makes on the iPhone, and the hundreds of billions they have stashed abroad, they don't need this kind of extortion.
Fuck Apple and fuck every fanboi who makes apologies for their greed.
the Ikea of software.
Ikea sells cheap chinese crap just like walmart, but with better marketing. So they're more like Apple than google.
I think it worked, the MSFT stock is soaring.
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/q...
(look at the 5-day chart)
And you are one of those people who see everything as black or white (I think the technical term for that is "being immature")
Spot on. And they must be new here, otherwise they could have ended the summary with "Discuss." and at least it would have been worth a chuckle.
You know what I miss the most from 10 years ago? The discussion about the year of the Linux desktop.
Think I'm kidding?
With phenomenal new distros, swelling international support, and a little extra momentum from Dell, we think Linux is poised to exploit the current atmosphere of doubt surrounding Vista and pick up serious traction in '08. 'For end users here in North America, Linux poses a low barrier to entry. While many still balk at an upgrade to Vista (typically centered around cost and restrictive licensing terms), those who are curious about the open-source alternative will find few of these obstacles. And an increasingly rich array of ready-to-run software (not to mention surprisingly effective utilities that let you run many Windows apps) makes it easy switch.
https://linux.slashdot.org/sto...
which reminds me of a quote from Bill Gates: "We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten."
Remember what Microsoft attempted 15+ years ago with .Net: a single codebase and programming paradigm for multiple devices and media?
That's how countless ASP.net web developers have no idea about what happens client-side versus server-side, since they are used to simply double-click on the control and write C# or VB.Net code in the event method; the widgets themselves take care of those details like ajax or win32 api. We've seen this horrible approach leak in the NodeJS world, with things like MeteorJS where you have to check the isClient variable to know if you're client or server-side... not so different from isPostback in Asp.net. Interestingly, MeteorJS also has isServer, because as we all know, the only thing better than a boolean variable is two boolean variables with opposite meaning.
Well, Material Design is yet another take on this. One framework to rule them all, from things that can fit on your wrist to things that are bigger than your parent's first TV. Mission accomplished: it's terrible everywhere.
the bad fucking thing about this is that i have to listen some exec dolt talk about how they got some new whizwhiz wweewee guru now at gooooooooogle and how they're good at design now at gooooogle
Don't worry too much about it. Everyone can tell their products are terrible. Google is not good at design.
Compare Google maps and Bing maps. The UX on Bing maps is vastly superior. Same for Bing images. As a search engine Bing is awful but the frontend (at least for images) is much better. Even Yahoo Search gives a better experience for images than Google.
Or look at browsers. Is changing settings a delightful experience in Chrome, compared to Firefox or Safari? Absolutely not. It feels weird, you can never tell if you've looked at all the options, and when you change something it's not immediately clear if it's saved or not. These are all things that a junior designer could tell are wrong.
If you really want a scare, open the developer tools that every developer knows as F12 but that somehow Google is trying to migrate to CTRL-Shift-I. Try to find the cookies or SSL certificates. Depending on the version of Chrome, they're not gonna be in the same place. Why? What problem are they trying to solve? All that was needed in terms of features and capabilities was already present in Firebug years ago. Google is just horsing around.
Speaking of retards, have you looked in a mirror lately?
As a matter of fact I have. And do you know what I saw? The face of your mom while I was sodomizing her in your bathroom (which is the only option left since giving birth to a morbidly obese moron like you kinda ruined her cunt).
Putting someone who's not an engineer in charge of Google would be a great way to turn them into yet another IT consulting firm. An engineer with no background in IT wouldn't necessarily grok fundamental principles a la Mythical Man Month, or have the wisdom to avoid sinking money into the latest IT buzzword hype tech.
Stop kidding yourself with the techie CEO fantasy. There's been very skilled ones (like Bill Gates, who is the real deal and who did brutal code reviews while being a CEO) but there's also been ones with very shallow expertise, like Zuckerberg or Jobs, or no skills at all, like Jeff Bezos. Every success story is different.
10 seconds of googling to find tech companies that didn't have a techie founder/CEO, besides Amazon:
Pinterest
Snapchat
Groupon
Alibaba
the zealotry of nazism
Are you aware that "zealotry" comes from the name of a Jewish sect?
How fast before they add a "find your wife/daughter/mom/ex" option?
No need to wait! If you want sex videos of your mom I can send you a private url.
we all have HD-DVD players in our homes
True, I keep mine next to the oil lamp on the icebox.
Porn has always led the industry. Always.
Not sure about that. Take search for instance; pornhub is running behind in that area. They're even worse than Youtube. Just the other day I was looking for softcore midget furry domination videos, and for some reason 2/3 of the results were about stepdaughters or stepsisters.
One time a techie at work was fixing the laptop of a manager and found a directory named after a female coworker. It contained multiple p0rn images and video featuring women that somehow looked like that female coworker. I guess this is a thing for some people.
Probably because they don't sell it in more then 3X large.
Of corse he is. What would be the fun of trolling a grammer nazi-wannabe.
The expression "grammar nazi" is interesting because:
1) actual nazis had, on average, poor grammar skills. Goebbels himself (who wanted to obtain a PhD in literature but had to fall back to literary history) wanted to become an author but his grammar was terrible. His own teacher, von Waldberg, once made fun of the fact that Goebbels was a huge fan of Dostoyevsky but never managed to write down the author's name properly.
2) nazis rarely took initiatives; they had a deeply hierarchical culture with centralized decision-making. Nazism was a textbook case of corporate statism.
Therefore, a person who engages on their own in grammatical nitpicking on the internet should not be called a "grammar nazi", but rather a "grammar vigilante", which is at the opposite end of the social spectrum.
In fact, one could argue that "grammar phony" would be an even better expression since grammatical nitpicking does not aim at correcting mistakes, but is rather a thinly veiled form of virtue signalling.
Google is definitely evil!
I don't think Google is evil. I think they're simply unable as an organization to deal responsibly with their own power, like a retard who happens to hold a flamethrower.
At this point pretty much anything they achieve is due to their immense wealth, not their expertise. There is no other way to explain how an online bookstore chain managed to invent and dominate cloud computing while Google had a copy of the entire internet in their immense data centers, and how a marketing company that pays engineers below market average managed to create a more robust and secure mobile operating system while Google had access to the contributions of the best open source developers in the world.
Google needs a new CEO. Someone who would put the company back on track, get rid of the social agenda and put an end to the crooked deals. Someone like Mulally, who saved Ford and managed to put the company back on the map without feeding at the public trough (unlike GM and Chrysler). Or if it was even possible, Michael Dell, who gave the finger to Wall Street and took his company private so he could stop the short-term profit game and pivot Dell toward enterprise services instead of sticking with the dying consumer PC segment.
Water above the freezing point would not explain the hole, it would merely *describe* it.
And I'm not convinced that it would even be that meaningful. For instance, it is completely possible for water temperature to be below the freezing point without freezing, especially in an environment where there is no major weather fluctuations and no major animal activity. Temperature itself does not automatically trigger the transition.
See this explanation from Wikipedia:
The melting point of water at 1 atmosphere of pressure is very close to 0 C (32 F, 273.15 K), and in the presence of nucleating substances the freezing point of water is close to the melting point, but in the absence of nucleators water can super cool to 40 C (40 F, 233 K) before freezing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There is a famous (alleged) case of flash freeze that happened in Russia during WWII: horses found in the bottom of a frozen lake. Someone made a demonstration, see:
http://www.radiolab.org/story/...
It's most likely water currents causing this phenomenon.
You should email the atmospheric physicist quoted in the article and let him know.
https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/cp...
True, even the GOP tried to bend rules and kill the Trump nomination.
Now we have President Trump (which is hilarious) but at least Clinton is not in a position to use the Army, FBI, CIA and NSA as her personal servants, so we dodged the worst bullet.
Still, it would be nice to have serious candidates in the presidential race once in a while. For instance, a Romney/Sanders race would have been a great opportunity to discuss core issues instead of talking about grabbing pussies or about secretary of states who sent top secret emails over plain smtp using the Exchange server installed in her pantry.