Get real. Probably 3/4 of the iDevice 'market share/install base' won't even run iOS 6. Apple obsoletes their hardware quickly. I have three iPod Touches and they've all been abandoned by Apple to varying degrees. I am heartily disappointed at how quickly App developers 'buy into' the new API bells and whistles and push themselves off devices whose paying customers might want to buy their product.
It's painfully obvious to anybody with an older iDevice that Apple is a hardware vendor first and abandons the hardware primarily to sell more new gadgets.
Yeah. "Get a new gadget." Why be the dummy with the old stuff. There's new shiney and you're not cool if you don't wait in line for it.
Now compare that with the massive balls it took to land people on the moon, when computers were still a novelty.
Computers were not a novelty in 1969. They may have been a novelty in 1953, but they weren't in 1969. Were you even alive in 1969 to know what you're talking about?
Working in the past, but not presently? Why did you need to separate it into those two categories? How can you claim the ones 'working in the past' are worth anything at all as examples if they aren't still working presently?
So I take it, though it appears nowhere in your comment, that since they have cancelled the problematic features you rant about, you'll now acknowledge:
"They listen to their customers. And that's A Good Thing."
I'm not an unconditional Microsoft Fan, nor will I probably buy an XBox One. But come on....
That's a tricky balancing act, because people who don't want to feel their career is confined don't hook their wagon to an 'Enterprise' operation. Small start-ups: skunkworks, and 'Siberia' engineering outfits are what attract the best nerds. Those can be fostered inside of giant companies, but only if the fucking 'Enterprise' suit-types get shut out.
Brin and Page sort of see Google as a big giant Xerox PARC.
Probably that's what got Steve Jobs so furious at them, actually. He saw it that way, too, but at critical points in time, Apple was prevented from stealing their stuff.
but they also cannot force people to use their products.
Correct. They can't force the suits to change, the guys with a microwave and a mini-fridge in their office that has a real door. Certainly not without a long extensive review process.
They're pretty good at selling their ideas to the crew members. Fuck the Enterprise. We've got shuttle-craft.
Well, we can always hope that they'll drown those big meeting rooms full of 'middle management' enterprise types in the churn of their product cycles.
I mean, the days of 'six months of integration meetings before a final review and then a 12 month adoption process' could be over. Schwoop. All those suits sucked down the drain. All that planning, the meetings to define the 'scope' of the project. All the fucking Gantt charts. Drowned in the churning reality of change in the modern world.
They can probably get away with that, because the prior art consists of elongated members with a knob at the bottom end to provide a varying rate/degree of vibration, not a simple on/off switch.
$300 today will get you a netbook that has a dual core AMD processor, Nvidia graphics, and can be populated with 8 GB of RAM. The earlier netbooks really stunk (the ones with Atom processors that Microsoft wouldn't provide OEM Windows for if it was possible to put more than 1G of RAM in) but the current line is quite usable. Look at the Acer Aspire One as an example.
Kids got Commodore-64s instead. Same processor as the Apple II, not as open. But the schematic diagram of the C-64 was right there in the back pages of the user manual that shipped with every commie. Apple could/should have made a cheap entry-level machine to compete with the commie, but it would have cannibalized their existing product line.
The PC, Jr. was a riot. They excised the DMA controller. It would run PC-DOS but everything it I/O-wise did had to pass through the CPU's accumulator. It had a Norton SI of something less than 1. When I played 3-Demon on a PC, Jr. (a wireframe 3-D version of Pacman) the machine would slow down dramatically if I turned to face down a long hall. A very crippled machine. DMA controller chips (the 8237 I think it was) weren't even very expensive at the time.
"PC" used to mean 'Original IBM PC'- you know, the one with only 5 ISA slots and the cassette port connector next to the keyboard one, not PC-XT or PC-AT. Get over it.
For the longest time my neighbor didn't have his router secured. It was on Comcast, and after awhile it was 'secured' by the browser bringing up a 'Login' page the first time you tried to use it. That was easily solved by setting the DNS for my connection to 4.2.2.1 and I had free access again. Now it has regular security though.
I seldom used it, but when in the backyard, their signal was stronger than mine.
The secure thing to do would be to put the Comcast router in a Faraday Cage. Put a wifi bridge inside the cage with it that has a wireless link to your own Router outside the Faraday Cage.
Anything else is a security risk.
This would probably be a viable business idea, a small cage to house the router as a turnkey product.
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Get real. Probably 3/4 of the iDevice 'market share/install base' won't even run iOS 6. Apple obsoletes their hardware quickly. I have three iPod Touches and they've all been abandoned by Apple to varying degrees. I am heartily disappointed at how quickly App developers 'buy into' the new API bells and whistles and push themselves off devices whose paying customers might want to buy their product.
It's painfully obvious to anybody with an older iDevice that Apple is a hardware vendor first and abandons the hardware primarily to sell more new gadgets.
Yeah. "Get a new gadget." Why be the dummy with the old stuff. There's new shiney and you're not cool if you don't wait in line for it.
You solder it into a diode array, silly.
Now compare that with the massive balls it took to land people on the moon, when computers were still a novelty.
Computers were not a novelty in 1969. They may have been a novelty in 1953, but they weren't in 1969. Were you even alive in 1969 to know what you're talking about?
Working in the past, but not presently? Why did you need to separate it into those two categories? How can you claim the ones 'working in the past' are worth anything at all as examples if they aren't still working presently?
Hmmm....
So I take it, though it appears nowhere in your comment, that since they have cancelled the problematic features you rant about, you'll now acknowledge:
"They listen to their customers. And that's A Good Thing."
I'm not an unconditional Microsoft Fan, nor will I probably buy an XBox One. But come on....
That's a tricky balancing act, because people who don't want to feel their career is confined don't hook their wagon to an 'Enterprise' operation. Small start-ups: skunkworks, and 'Siberia' engineering outfits are what attract the best nerds. Those can be fostered inside of giant companies, but only if the fucking 'Enterprise' suit-types get shut out.
Brin and Page sort of see Google as a big giant Xerox PARC.
Probably that's what got Steve Jobs so furious at them, actually. He saw it that way, too, but at critical points in time, Apple was prevented from stealing their stuff.
You stated that there were two main items and listed three. Sounds like funny MBS math to me.
The 'two' bullet points and the 'three' bullet points were supposed to be on separate PowerPoint slides. Slashdot mangled his presentation.
They took over the biggest and deepest archive repository. Then obfuscated the interface.
but they also cannot force people to use their products.
Correct. They can't force the suits to change, the guys with a microwave and a mini-fridge in their office that has a real door. Certainly not without a long extensive review process.
They're pretty good at selling their ideas to the crew members. Fuck the Enterprise. We've got shuttle-craft.
Well, we can always hope that they'll drown those big meeting rooms full of 'middle management' enterprise types in the churn of their product cycles.
I mean, the days of 'six months of integration meetings before a final review and then a 12 month adoption process' could be over. Schwoop. All those suits sucked down the drain. All that planning, the meetings to define the 'scope' of the project. All the fucking Gantt charts. Drowned in the churning reality of change in the modern world.
What a tragedy.
They can probably get away with that, because the prior art consists of elongated members with a knob at the bottom end to provide a varying rate/degree of vibration, not a simple on/off switch.
The prior art on the camera in a giant hat that Homer Simpson wore precludes that particular 'engineering design.'
''Fitted with an accelerometer, it snaps a pix at each blow."
Bzz, bzzz, bzzit. Buzzwords. Dance around the issue some more, won't ya?
It's an 'engineering design' involving 'fitting stuff' in a particular fashion.
Who let marketing in here??
$300 today will get you a netbook that has a dual core AMD processor, Nvidia graphics, and can be populated with 8 GB of RAM. The earlier netbooks really stunk (the ones with Atom processors that Microsoft wouldn't provide OEM Windows for if it was possible to put more than 1G of RAM in) but the current line is quite usable. Look at the Acer Aspire One as an example.
By that point anybody interested in computers had a C-64 at home, which did everything the Apple II did that they wanted, for far less.
Kids got Commodore-64s instead. Same processor as the Apple II, not as open. But the schematic diagram of the C-64 was right there in the back pages of the user manual that shipped with every commie. Apple could/should have made a cheap entry-level machine to compete with the commie, but it would have cannibalized their existing product line.
The PC, Jr. was a riot. They excised the DMA controller. It would run PC-DOS but everything it I/O-wise did had to pass through the CPU's accumulator. It had a Norton SI of something less than 1. When I played 3-Demon on a PC, Jr. (a wireframe 3-D version of Pacman) the machine would slow down dramatically if I turned to face down a long hall. A very crippled machine. DMA controller chips (the 8237 I think it was) weren't even very expensive at the time.
"PC" used to mean 'Original IBM PC'- you know, the one with only 5 ISA slots and the cassette port connector next to the keyboard one, not PC-XT or PC-AT. Get over it.
For the longest time my neighbor didn't have his router secured. It was on Comcast, and after awhile it was 'secured' by the browser bringing up a 'Login' page the first time you tried to use it. That was easily solved by setting the DNS for my connection to 4.2.2.1 and I had free access again. Now it has regular security though.
I seldom used it, but when in the backyard, their signal was stronger than mine.
Correction: "...a wifi bridge inside the cage with a hardwired link to your own Router..."
The secure thing to do would be to put the Comcast router in a Faraday Cage. Put a wifi bridge inside the cage with it that has a wireless link to your own Router outside the Faraday Cage.
Anything else is a security risk.
This would probably be a viable business idea, a small cage to house the router as a turnkey product.
This is Slashdot. You don't know how right you are.
Isn't it just common knowledge that EA destroys everything they touch and have zero respect for gamers?
These are Facebook gamers. There was never anything to respect.