...At least not an explicit one. I'd argue that this emboldens the government into thinking they can get away with it. The lack of outrage at their actions reinforces this belief. Americans have been sufficiently distracted by the many other calamities generated by their government. Fixing campaign finance and explicitly defining privacy rights would go a long way towards bringing America back from the extreme place it finds itself.
Japan grounded all of its Dreamliners a day earlier than America or the EU, and yet they aren't mentioned in the headline? There are 24 Dreamliners in service in Japan, more than in any other country. You'd think they'd get some credit for having their air safety experts raise the alarm while the US was still "confident in the safety of the aircraft.
What if the smaller iPad wasn't intended for end users but for another OEM?
With the announcement of "Eyes Free" and a Siri button for automobiles how great a leap is it to put an iPad in your car too? Instead of those pricey in dash nav screens that all of the auto manufacturers make, what if a few of them designed an in dash dock instead? It could come with a detachable iPad capable of replacing the nav, the entertainment system, and provide a platform for new apps. And you'd be able to take it with you when you parked. Or not--Apple could always make a non-detachable model too, but I don't see that as being quite as useful.
Either way, we'll know if there's a 7 inch model coming or not soon enough.
The Siri that exists for the iPhone is not the Siri that existed two years ago. I know, I had the app on my phone. The reason Apple gets the credit is because Apple's deep pockets made the current version possible. Apple saw the potential in the app and bought the company. They then integrated Siri into their existing built in phone apps. The new Siri is much better than the original app. Without Apple's cash that improvement might not have been possible.
I don't think you're looking at this in quite the correct way. Disrupting air travel in the US on a massive scale would be a serious economic blow. You don't have to actually kill people to do a lot of damage.
There's no way this can come back to bite America in the ass. No way at all. Just like arming and training the Mujahideen in Afghanistan all those years ago led to those weapons and techniques being used against Americans in recent years, these "stealth internets" can possibly be used against American interests in the future. You can't assume that the people you give these to will be idiots. They'll find a way to use these to set up secure communications channels to use for their own purposes, not just for the purposes America might wish them to be used.
Individually we aren't. But collectively we've shown, time and again, just how stupid we are. And we'll never be able to reach a consensus on a new economic model because of it.
I can't speak for people in other nations (I'm an American) even though I suspect I know how they would react. But I have a pretty good idea of how Americans will behave. Many of them will scream "socialist" and want nothing to do with it. Many others will complain about having to pay for it, even though they themselves are already beyond broke and use more resources than they actually contribute back. Some will never want to relinquish the (illusion of) control they believe they have over the world. We can't reach a consensus amongst ourselves, let alone with people who have different political philosophies. In other words, good luck getting us to agree with the Chinese or the Russians.
If there's going to be an intelligent solution found it will have to be found by the people with the rapidly growing populations. The future really is up to the Chinese, Indians and Africans. Don't blow it guys.
Of course it's just as likely some pointless war will greatly reduce the population pressure before the century is out...
That's no building. I see through your nefarious plan, Jobs. You're building a giant transmutation circle. You'll fill it with 13,000 souls, perform horrifying experiments on them, and then sacrifice them all in order to create a Philosopher's Stone for yourself. You've pushed the boundaries of medical science and human alchemy is all that's left to you now...
Come on, people. Of course I'm not serious. Or am I...?
But other tunnel boring projects do anticipate this sort of thing. I'll point to the city of Seattle and Washington state, which plan to replace an elevated freeway with a deep bore tunnel. Not through solid rock, but through glacial till material that is the equivalent of mixed dirt and gravel. Apparently the tunnel engineers don't think it will be a big problem to drill through it. (It will be hard on the drills themselves, but they can do it.) I think they're more concerned about the tunnel collapsing afterwards. Which was likely the concern at Niagara Falls too had they gone through something other than solid rock..
My Macbook Pro had one of the offending NVIDIA chips. When it failed out of warranty Apple simply replaced it. They didn't send me to NVIDIA for a solution. I assume they hammered NVIDIA to get their money back for the replacement part. The OEM computer manufacturers are always going to have more leverage with their suppliers than you or I will. Responsible vendors should shield the end user from this sort of pettiness and finger pointing. After all, you didn't buy your laptop from NVIDIA...
I, too, have been conditioned to believe 7 impossible things before breakfast.
This is the problem with the stock market. Its fear driven. I *could* be afraid that Windows Phone or Android might make a big dent in iPhone market share. Or I can invest with confidence and wait for actual signs that this is actually taking place. Never mind the fact that 50% of Apple's profits come from products other than the iPhone...
Between A5 and its creator, Steve Jobs, who had to audacity to impress his own memory engrams on the new chip. Due to his ongoing "personal issues" the chip became unstable and slaughtered its opponents Motorola, Samsung, and RIMM. Jobs will remind A5 of how great they both are before playing dead and waiting for HP to join the fray...
Jobs also made a point of sending his regards to Captain Dunsel. AKA Steve Ballmer.
The trainer/simulator is one of a kind. People will be allowed to walk through it. The real Shuttles will be on view, but not allowed to be touched. I'll grant that people want to see the real thing, which is why the Museum of Flight wanted one. They didn't get one, but that's no reason to be negative or unhappy about what they DID get.
For the Museum of Flight's new space wing, which is pretty much finished, with an available space for a Shuttle. But instead the museum will be getting a full fuselage Shuttle trainer. In a way this is actually better. The Shuttle can't be touched. However visitors will be able to go inside the trainer. Just as every astronaut who has ever flown the Shuttle has done.
There are other aliens on his list, so this is fair game. First they created an army of super robots to enforce justice in the form of the Manhunters. Then they created the ultimate weapons and power sources in the Green Lantern rings and power batteries. And never underestimate the social engineering skill it takes in building an organization made up of hundreds of races, genders and species in the Green Lantern Corps.
"You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment."
Well, actually I can, and I agree: "Americanizing" House of Cards will ruin it completely. It would be like making an American version of Doctor Who. Some things are just too sacrilegious to even consider.
That must be why Congress voted to cut funding for earthquake monitoring and tsunami alerts just this week. Nevermind the fact that an event even larger than the one is Japan is possible along the Cascadia Subduction Zone. This region stretches from Northern California to British Columbian. A magnitude 9 event here won't give the US coast the 6 - 9 hours we had this time. It will be more like minutes.
As ever it seems the Republicans are penny-wise and pound foolish.
I'll give you an example. The model predicted a wave amplitude of 2.5 meters for Crescent City, CA. The observed amplitude was 2.47 meters. I'd say that's pretty good. Source: California Office of Emergency Services. It went around as an email today, but perhaps it's available on their website by now.
This idea of "Apple making it back in the app store" needs to be squashed. Apple's financial disclosures make it clear how much money they make on the App Store/ iTunes Store. The profits are just beyond break even. Apple is and always has been a hardware company. Not only that, but they're now a hardware company that can leverage economies of scale with their suppliers.
The reason the iPad is so cheap is because Apple buys components to make it in bulk. In some cases they'll buy the entire output of a supplier. There are also documented instances where Apple have provided the capital for suppliers to expand their production facilities in return for buying the complete output of those new facilities. This is easy to do for certain items that get used across your entire product line, such as flash memory. Doing this means Apple can get parts at prices their competitors can't match, and in return they can sell their products for lower prices. When you have Samsung making and selling you flash memory at a price they can't match for their own subsidiaries, you know you're doing something right. It's amazing planning on Apple's part and a testament to the faith they have in being able to deliver on their product roadmaps. Whatever Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook is getting paid has clearly been worth it.
It's one of my all time favorites too. By less far-fetched I simply mean that observing complex orbital systems makes it more "real" to me than just theoretically positing one.
You're missing the point. It's not about the fanboy nerd rage. It's about the frequency of marginal "stories" that are really advertising-driven click bait. Fanboy nerd rage can make a lot of money for a site, so lots of them are posting Apple news because it feeds the frenzy. Slashdot used to not do this sort of stuff but it seems to be on the increase. In my opinion.
A review of my posting history will show that I'm not anti-Apple (really, quite the opposite) so that's not at issue here. And in spite of iFixit's teardown it's impossible to judge the *quality* of a laptop after it's been on the market for three days. Their opinion is that the one laptop they disassembled had issues. Perhaps they should use a larger sample size.
Good point about submitting worthy news, and when I find something worthy I do that. I would not consider this story worthy.
OK Anonymous Coward, that's all you'll get from me. Post publicly next time if you'd like to continue the conversation.
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...At least not an explicit one. I'd argue that this emboldens the government into thinking they can get away with it. The lack of outrage at their actions reinforces this belief. Americans have been sufficiently distracted by the many other calamities generated by their government. Fixing campaign finance and explicitly defining privacy rights would go a long way towards bringing America back from the extreme place it finds itself.
Japan grounded all of its Dreamliners a day earlier than America or the EU, and yet they aren't mentioned in the headline? There are 24 Dreamliners in service in Japan, more than in any other country. You'd think they'd get some credit for having their air safety experts raise the alarm while the US was still "confident in the safety of the aircraft.
What if the smaller iPad wasn't intended for end users but for another OEM?
With the announcement of "Eyes Free" and a Siri button for automobiles how great a leap is it to put an iPad in your car too? Instead of those pricey in dash nav screens that all of the auto manufacturers make, what if a few of them designed an in dash dock instead? It could come with a detachable iPad capable of replacing the nav, the entertainment system, and provide a platform for new apps. And you'd be able to take it with you when you parked. Or not--Apple could always make a non-detachable model too, but I don't see that as being quite as useful.
Either way, we'll know if there's a 7 inch model coming or not soon enough.
The Siri that exists for the iPhone is not the Siri that existed two years ago. I know, I had the app on my phone. The reason Apple gets the credit is because Apple's deep pockets made the current version possible. Apple saw the potential in the app and bought the company. They then integrated Siri into their existing built in phone apps. The new Siri is much better than the original app. Without Apple's cash that improvement might not have been possible.
I don't think you're looking at this in quite the correct way. Disrupting air travel in the US on a massive scale would be a serious economic blow. You don't have to actually kill people to do a lot of damage.
At what point do you stop thinking of this as a glitch and start thinking of it as an attack?
There's no way this can come back to bite America in the ass. No way at all. Just like arming and training the Mujahideen in Afghanistan all those years ago led to those weapons and techniques being used against Americans in recent years, these "stealth internets" can possibly be used against American interests in the future. You can't assume that the people you give these to will be idiots. They'll find a way to use these to set up secure communications channels to use for their own purposes, not just for the purposes America might wish them to be used.
That's not what "consensus" implies at all. But thank you for illustrating my point.
Individually we aren't. But collectively we've shown, time and again, just how stupid we are. And we'll never be able to reach a consensus on a new economic model because of it.
I can't speak for people in other nations (I'm an American) even though I suspect I know how they would react. But I have a pretty good idea of how Americans will behave. Many of them will scream "socialist" and want nothing to do with it. Many others will complain about having to pay for it, even though they themselves are already beyond broke and use more resources than they actually contribute back. Some will never want to relinquish the (illusion of) control they believe they have over the world. We can't reach a consensus amongst ourselves, let alone with people who have different political philosophies. In other words, good luck getting us to agree with the Chinese or the Russians.
If there's going to be an intelligent solution found it will have to be found by the people with the rapidly growing populations. The future really is up to the Chinese, Indians and Africans. Don't blow it guys.
Of course it's just as likely some pointless war will greatly reduce the population pressure before the century is out...
That's no building. I see through your nefarious plan, Jobs. You're building a giant transmutation circle. You'll fill it with 13,000 souls, perform horrifying experiments on them, and then sacrifice them all in order to create a Philosopher's Stone for yourself. You've pushed the boundaries of medical science and human alchemy is all that's left to you now...
Come on, people. Of course I'm not serious. Or am I...?
But other tunnel boring projects do anticipate this sort of thing. I'll point to the city of Seattle and Washington state, which plan to replace an elevated freeway with a deep bore tunnel. Not through solid rock, but through glacial till material that is the equivalent of mixed dirt and gravel. Apparently the tunnel engineers don't think it will be a big problem to drill through it. (It will be hard on the drills themselves, but they can do it.) I think they're more concerned about the tunnel collapsing afterwards. Which was likely the concern at Niagara Falls too had they gone through something other than solid rock..
My Macbook Pro had one of the offending NVIDIA chips. When it failed out of warranty Apple simply replaced it. They didn't send me to NVIDIA for a solution. I assume they hammered NVIDIA to get their money back for the replacement part. The OEM computer manufacturers are always going to have more leverage with their suppliers than you or I will. Responsible vendors should shield the end user from this sort of pettiness and finger pointing. After all, you didn't buy your laptop from NVIDIA...
I, too, have been conditioned to believe 7 impossible things before breakfast.
This is the problem with the stock market. Its fear driven. I *could* be afraid that Windows Phone or Android might make a big dent in iPhone market share. Or I can invest with confidence and wait for actual signs that this is actually taking place. Never mind the fact that 50% of Apple's profits come from products other than the iPhone...
Between A5 and its creator, Steve Jobs, who had to audacity to impress his own memory engrams on the new chip. Due to his ongoing "personal issues" the chip became unstable and slaughtered its opponents Motorola, Samsung, and RIMM. Jobs will remind A5 of how great they both are before playing dead and waiting for HP to join the fray...
Jobs also made a point of sending his regards to Captain Dunsel. AKA Steve Ballmer.
You have a unique negative outlook on this. OK, maybe not so unique.
See here: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014751898_shuttledecision13m.html
The trainer/simulator is one of a kind. People will be allowed to walk through it. The real Shuttles will be on view, but not allowed to be touched. I'll grant that people want to see the real thing, which is why the Museum of Flight wanted one. They didn't get one, but that's no reason to be negative or unhappy about what they DID get.
For the Museum of Flight's new space wing, which is pretty much finished, with an available space for a Shuttle. But instead the museum will be getting a full fuselage Shuttle trainer. In a way this is actually better. The Shuttle can't be touched. However visitors will be able to go inside the trainer. Just as every astronaut who has ever flown the Shuttle has done.
There are other aliens on his list, so this is fair game. First they created an army of super robots to enforce justice in the form of the Manhunters. Then they created the ultimate weapons and power sources in the Green Lantern rings and power batteries. And never underestimate the social engineering skill it takes in building an organization made up of hundreds of races, genders and species in the Green Lantern Corps.
Because those who can, do. Those who can't, litigate.
"You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment."
Well, actually I can, and I agree: "Americanizing" House of Cards will ruin it completely. It would be like making an American version of Doctor Who. Some things are just too sacrilegious to even consider.
That must be why Congress voted to cut funding for earthquake monitoring and tsunami alerts just this week. Nevermind the fact that an event even larger than the one is Japan is possible along the Cascadia Subduction Zone. This region stretches from Northern California to British Columbian. A magnitude 9 event here won't give the US coast the 6 - 9 hours we had this time. It will be more like minutes.
As ever it seems the Republicans are penny-wise and pound foolish.
I'll give you an example. The model predicted a wave amplitude of 2.5 meters for Crescent City, CA. The observed amplitude was 2.47 meters. I'd say that's pretty good. Source: California Office of Emergency Services. It went around as an email today, but perhaps it's available on their website by now.
This idea of "Apple making it back in the app store" needs to be squashed. Apple's financial disclosures make it clear how much money they make on the App Store/ iTunes Store. The profits are just beyond break even. Apple is and always has been a hardware company. Not only that, but they're now a hardware company that can leverage economies of scale with their suppliers.
The reason the iPad is so cheap is because Apple buys components to make it in bulk. In some cases they'll buy the entire output of a supplier. There are also documented instances where Apple have provided the capital for suppliers to expand their production facilities in return for buying the complete output of those new facilities. This is easy to do for certain items that get used across your entire product line, such as flash memory. Doing this means Apple can get parts at prices their competitors can't match, and in return they can sell their products for lower prices. When you have Samsung making and selling you flash memory at a price they can't match for their own subsidiaries, you know you're doing something right. It's amazing planning on Apple's part and a testament to the faith they have in being able to deliver on their product roadmaps. Whatever Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook is getting paid has clearly been worth it.
It's one of my all time favorites too. By less far-fetched I simply mean that observing complex orbital systems makes it more "real" to me than just theoretically positing one.
For some reason I was reminded of Asimov's "Nightfall". It's sounding just a little less far-fetched now.
You're missing the point. It's not about the fanboy nerd rage. It's about the frequency of marginal "stories" that are really advertising-driven click bait. Fanboy nerd rage can make a lot of money for a site, so lots of them are posting Apple news because it feeds the frenzy. Slashdot used to not do this sort of stuff but it seems to be on the increase. In my opinion.
A review of my posting history will show that I'm not anti-Apple (really, quite the opposite) so that's not at issue here. And in spite of iFixit's teardown it's impossible to judge the *quality* of a laptop after it's been on the market for three days. Their opinion is that the one laptop they disassembled had issues. Perhaps they should use a larger sample size.
Good point about submitting worthy news, and when I find something worthy I do that. I would not consider this story worthy.
OK Anonymous Coward, that's all you'll get from me. Post publicly next time if you'd like to continue the conversation.