People with kids are more important than everyone else.
Overpopulation, tax concessions. In fact as a net saver in a country with an unsustainable level of personal debt growth I'd say they were a net drain on society.
Everyone agrees that developers should never have access to production...Unless they're the developer, in which case it's different.
I cant agree with that.
I have three levels, Dev, Test and Prod. Do what you like in dev, prove it in dev and I'll let you into test. Test is identical to Prod and is used to determine if whatever you are doing is going to break anything. So if you can deploy it in test then you give it to me and I'll do it in Prod as it's my arse on the line there (your deployment in test should be properly documented, it should be mostly documented before you get to test). If the deployment needs some specific knowledge then show me, if that doesn't cut it we'll do the damn thing together (be prepared to stay back out of business hours). In no way will I let a dev (or marketing analyst or PHB for that matter) anywhere near prod without me.
Its a good practice to keep them separated, but in the end its just a pissing contest.
Whilst I admit the dedication of some (many) sysadmins to their servers borders on the pathological, they do it for good reasons. As XKCD put it, they are the only thing stands between the forces of darkness and you cats blog. Often it's one crazy sysadmin that keeps an entire company running (OK, this is bad you need at least two crazy sysadmins, for redundancy).
In the end, its the best practice to have everyone work together sensibly
I can agree here, but the separation of prod and developer, whilst onerous is vital.
That's why you shouldn't have access to prod, but you should be able to either A. get a clone of prod made fairly quickly or B. already have one running so you can mutilate it however you want.
I think that's backwards, Test environment should snapshotted to be identical to prod just after the last change occured. So all we would need to restore is last nights database backup to test if required.
If a change is done to prod, it's already running in test. If you make changes to test, restore the damn thing back to the snapshot of the last prod change (or use another copy altogether, which is easy with Virtual Machines although that introduces a versioning issue).
Test should be treated as 2nd prod and only used as a precursor to making a change on prod, Dev versions are what the developers can mutilate to their hearts content because you can just take another copy from test. Plus this keeps dev's very far away from mission critical prod systems.
This isn't meant to help poor third-world countries, or to deal with natural outbreaks. The concerns you express were never part of the project's goals.
No money in helping poor African nations but there's plenty of profit in making rich, lazy and ignorant first world nations scared of a non-existent bogeyman.
Note: I'm not saying American Forien Policy has always been the best for African nations, but were the countries really ever OK? Go back before we were involved and you run into the Colonial rule. Which ( with the exception of Liberia), was mostly European in nature.
Europe has been out of most of Africa for 50 to 100 years, how long can we keep blaming Europe for this and avoid assigning responsibility to the Africans?
Many of the better off African nations maintain voluntary ties to the Commonwealth of Nations that came out of the old British empire. South Africa (got full membership back after Apartheid in 1994) Botswana, Ghana and a few others.
Note that I'm not saying a US style of interference will help, in fact I think it will make things worse for Africa (even worse) but some should definitely be demoted in the UN to diminished members (thinking the likes of Nigeria, Zimbabwe). Even China and the Former Iraqi state cares/d a great deal about feeding it's people. Saddam paid corrupt officials up to three times the price for food shipments back in the 90's. A few of the African governments get away with murder (literally for Mr Mugabe) under the guise of sovereign rights.
For some odd reason people who call children "crotchspawn" never quite sound like authoritative child rearing experts.
Unfortunately with the state of child rearing in Australia, the standards of authority are quire low. If parent's didn't let their "little darlings" run amok in shopping centres, public transport, aeroplanes, offices and so forth then referring to them as "crotchspawns" would be quite unreasonable.
But this is not the case, worse yet parents over here seem to be rewarding this kind of behaviour by giving the kids sweets as a bribe (since ADHD medication fell out of favour) and then trying to pacify them with the TV. I dread doing my weekly shop as people with kids tend to think they are more important then everyone else.
Every armed force in the western world operates an OPFOR type organisation for just this purpose. Often using tactics, vehicles and equipment expected to be used by foreign aggressors (I.E. a lot of Ex-Soviet and old US equipment that got sold on). Sometimes up to the point where a foreign allied force is acting as OPFOR.
As an Australian, I dont see what is wrong here. Frankly we could use more of this kind of out of the box thinking in the glorified day care system that is education. But unfortunately the NIMBY's wont have a bar of it.
Credit card fees, distrust in banks. Didn't want their card rejected. People who line up are too emotionally invested in the product to take risks and not smart enough to pre-order.
But these people were paying with the exact amount needed (even accounting for tax)
Not like the price is not advertised before hand.
and with clearly uncirculated bills
Like the ones I get from the ATM. Fresh cash goes into the ATM, old cash get destroyed.
He noticed how all were using the same basic superlatives
Blind followers (fanboys) tend not to have original though, thus their mannerisms tend to be similar, and often seem identical to outside observers. Nothing your friend observed is outside of normal fanboy behaviour.
Corporate plants
Why? To what end, limiting supply, creating artificial demand?
Why go to all the trouble of hiring plants, giving them money, organising them to be at certain stores, arranging a drop off of merchandise and so forth when you can just limit the supply to a few units per store like they did with the international release (as a response, few stores in Perth are advertising the Iphone at all, most are advertising Android or Nokia).
The thing about conspiracies is that the more people you involve the harder it is to keep secret and Apple haven't been able to keep very many good secrets lately. Occams razor applies, no.
Who is also the same supplier of Dell, Microsoft, Logitech, HP, Intel, etc on and on. Why do you only single out Apple out of all of Foxconn's customers?
Because the deaths were primarily from the Apple part of the factory, in response to increases in hours but not pay due to the demand from Apple to create enough devices for the launch.
FoxConn is a big company. they have production lines in different parts of China, even different parts of Shenzhen, but one factory/factory unit is typically dedicated to one customer. Because of the need for some training on each assembly line, the employee's do not switch between lines willy nilly. You work on one line, in one job for almost your entire length of employment (turnover is pretty high, people get sick, pregnant, go back to the village to look after mum and dad but there is always a fresh supply of young people). Also, just because Company X is also doing it, doesn't give Apple a free ride.
This is also why I prefer to by from companies like HTC, AsusTek, Gigabyte and Samsung who do most of their manufacturing in places like Taiwan, Korea and Thailand where there are laws that protect the employee (Thailand in particular, it's illegal to make an employee work more then 12 hours, after 8 you need to pay double so a relatively uneducated factory worker from Issan will earn double doing 12 hours instead of 8, so instead of earning 200 USD a month they're getting 400 USD a month). Even AMD, who I prefer over Intel does their assembly in Malaysia. It's not that more expensive, in fact my HTC phones and Asus laptops are cheaper then their Apple equivalents (not to mention more sturdy and reliable, my HTC Dream took some serious punishment).
/tinfoil hat on/ Ideally, to hide large sums of cash in your home, you need to determine what percent must be easily accessible, accessible, and largely inaccessible. Easily accessible means that it takes you less than a minute to get to it. A 500 count jar of advil is a great place to store a roll of cash, and then pour the pills back over it. (Also have some underneath). Food containers also work well for this (Cereal, milk jug, etc).
For accessible, but not easily so, you have more options. Generally, this category can fall into "Things with screws." As previously mentioned, a CRT monitor or VHS player with removable back/side/bottom works wonders for hiding things. My favorite was a radio receiver from 1980 that went with some other stereo equipment. It had 6 screws on the bottom, and there was a thin space for hiding something flat between it and the circuit board. The panel was slightly smaller than the gap, too, so you could see the circuit board 1cm away, but the panel was big enough to hide any cash. Another great place is to take your door off the wall, remove the hinges (from the wall) and drill into that area. It is easy cut in deep enough to store something. Lastly, most light switches or wall outlets have a small gap in the wall, which is perfect for storing a roll. Oh, and also, a favorite: Get 2 fairly large cuts of prewrapped meat at the supermarket, and unwrap them. Throw 1 away, and keep the white bottom tray. Put some cash between that tray and the other one (with the meat on it) and then press the edges together, put the meat back on top, and then wrap it really tightly (even better to reuse the wrap it came with) and then throw it in the freezer.
Or you could just get an offshore bank account like most people.
Being an Apple Exec I'm sure he travels frequently (or has an excuse to do so) so just take US$9,999 out on your person per trip. 10K USD is not that large and will easily fit in a ziplock bag in a jacket or hip pocket. I carry about A$$4-5,000 in A$50 notes on trips and never have any trouble (because Aussie banks will charge me A$27 in fees per A$1000 OS ATM transaction), I just put it in my pocket and calmly walk through security.
But as you said, dumb criminals do dumb things, if he had of talked to any (dis)reputable tax lawyer he would have been advised to slowly move it out of the nation, in small lots.
I'd gladly shell out a buck for an episode of something- ANYTHING- that will keep Junior entertained and quiet
Good parenting will be cheaper and more effective over a long period of time.
If your crotchspawn knew there would be punishment for making a ruckus in the doctors office, eventually they will learn to stop doing it. Instead you have fallen back to the cathode teat of TV in order to replace your responsibility of raising a healthy child.
You could just try, you know...
Talking or playing with your child, feck knows that's what my mum did with me and I spent a lot of time in hospitals and doctors offices as a child.
FU Tyson - {G}. If Pluto can't be a planet I'm not recognizing any of these others till you have definitive quatification of the ephemerides for all of them.
So what are we living on, an Earthoid?
You know what, I'm renaming every planet to Hammer just to spite you.
Then why even make iMacs and PowerBooks (or whatever Apple's calling their laptops now)?
Because Geeks aren't the primary purchaser of these. They are targeting the hipster and wannabe hipsters.
If that's really the case, Jobs should save Apple boatloads of cash and just churn out iPads, iPods, and iPhones.
Well that's the plan. But any good business plan has allowed for a slow migration from one system to another. Microsoft still supports XP (and 2000 if you're willing to pay for it) because their customers have not migrated, but they are doing everything in their power to get customers to migrate to current versions (Win7/Server 08).
It's been obvious since Steve Jobs' rant about the PC industry "achangin" that he's planning on killing the Desktop Mac, this needs to be done slowly however but people are being subtly prepared for it. Of course to the larger IT industry it represents Apple leaving the IT industry in general but Apple and their fanboys tend to have this delusion that the industry is following them.
Maybe I'm just delusional, but I can't see Apple simply ceding that market to Microsoft and Linux.
I'm certain they dont intend to, they think people will follow them regardless of what Apple does. Apple has shot themselves in the foot before. Big time, with the Apple Lisa and by perusing Microsoft with the look and feel law suit. That history seems to be repeating itself.
HTC SW patent suit == MS "Look and Feel" suit. Once again, Apple is suing of spurious reasons with a small chance to win in order to attack competition they cant go toe to toe with (Google and HTC can work faster then Apple). Ipad == Apple Lisa. The Lisa is a great thing on paper, in reality it was overpriced, overbuilt and did not deliver the functionality of cheaper, less advanced IBM PC's of the day. The same is true of the Ipad and it will go the same way as hundreds of cheaper and more functional tablets get released in Q4 2009 as well as Q1 and Q2 2010. Unless the whole tablet fad blows over, in either case the end result is the same for Apple.
Android 2.2 doesn't support HD displays (only via video out like HDMI), unless they've extended it somehow.
Well it is entirely possible to replace entire sub systems on Android due to it being Open Source.
Samsung being an OEM and OHA (Open Handset Alliance) member means that they may also have access to pre-release code from 3.0.
Of course this is just speculation, although I'd be interested to see what it's like when it is released. We consider a 1920x1080 to be a good resolution on a 40" screen, why isn't 800x480 a good resolution on a 7" screen? (at 40" that scales to approx 5600x3400).
In the public sector. In other areas (such as Emergency Responders, Health Care, Manufacturing and many others) there have been wildly successful tablets for many years.
I work in the GIS industry and tablets have also be successful here, in particular the ruggardised ones that cost US$5K a peice. The Ipad has the same problem as any other tablet, they are uncomfortable for long term use. When field services get back, they plug the tablet in, get the data off it and work on their desktop/laptop. The tablet in reality remains a niche item.
The only way this will change is when the tablet becomes cheap enough and functional enough to operate as a peripheral. In order to do this it need to to work with a PC or laptop, any PC or laptop without third party software. The functions that will be needed are, mass storage, the ability to transfer data to and from a device from a set point (what Chrome to Phone does) I.E. to transfer a document and have it open on the tablet at the spot you were reading, function as an I/O device and become part of a corporate network (I.E. join a domain).
The Ipad fails at all four of these functions by design. The Ipad is meant to be independent of anything but Itunes on one PC and ultimately that will be its biggest failing as cheaper and more functional tablets come to the market (or the whole tablet thing falls on its face... again).
And Android phones are going the TiVo way as well, requiring jailbreaks and the like to "get the most out of it".
As of 2.0, this is not the case.
With Tivo and Iphone, you have to hack it to get basic functionality. With Android you only have to hack it if you want to get access to the kernel to install a driver.
Using the examples of Sony and Motorola are not indicative of Android, they are indicative of Sony and Motorola. HTC and Samsung have proven to be quite open to custom ROMs, HTC to the point of providing support to XDA developers (probably wants some good will when XDA dev code shows up in HTC ROMs).
Not to mention Meizu, who are making quite open handsets because it's cheaper then locking them down.
Android the OS is separate to the companies that make the phones.
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Actually I was going to go with he has a small penis, Napoleon syndrome and anger management issues.
If he had to use an Apple server, he could easily claim temporary insanity.
Overpopulation, tax concessions. In fact as a net saver in a country with an unsustainable level of personal debt growth I'd say they were a net drain on society.
I cant agree with that.
I have three levels, Dev, Test and Prod. Do what you like in dev, prove it in dev and I'll let you into test. Test is identical to Prod and is used to determine if whatever you are doing is going to break anything. So if you can deploy it in test then you give it to me and I'll do it in Prod as it's my arse on the line there (your deployment in test should be properly documented, it should be mostly documented before you get to test). If the deployment needs some specific knowledge then show me, if that doesn't cut it we'll do the damn thing together (be prepared to stay back out of business hours). In no way will I let a dev (or marketing analyst or PHB for that matter) anywhere near prod without me.
Whilst I admit the dedication of some (many) sysadmins to their servers borders on the pathological, they do it for good reasons. As XKCD put it, they are the only thing stands between the forces of darkness and you cats blog. Often it's one crazy sysadmin that keeps an entire company running (OK, this is bad you need at least two crazy sysadmins, for redundancy).
I can agree here, but the separation of prod and developer, whilst onerous is vital.
I think that's backwards, Test environment should snapshotted to be identical to prod just after the last change occured. So all we would need to restore is last nights database backup to test if required.
If a change is done to prod, it's already running in test. If you make changes to test, restore the damn thing back to the snapshot of the last prod change (or use another copy altogether, which is easy with Virtual Machines although that introduces a versioning issue).
Test should be treated as 2nd prod and only used as a precursor to making a change on prod, Dev versions are what the developers can mutilate to their hearts content because you can just take another copy from test. Plus this keeps dev's very far away from mission critical prod systems.
Yes, but your average perfume nozzle is on a vessel significantly smaller then a tanker truck.
That alone makes it unusual, probably purpose made or modified so it can be re-purposed. Which in a way makes it special.
No money in helping poor African nations but there's plenty of profit in making rich, lazy and ignorant first world nations scared of a non-existent bogeyman.
Europe has been out of most of Africa for 50 to 100 years, how long can we keep blaming Europe for this and avoid assigning responsibility to the Africans?
Many of the better off African nations maintain voluntary ties to the Commonwealth of Nations that came out of the old British empire. South Africa (got full membership back after Apartheid in 1994) Botswana, Ghana and a few others.
Note that I'm not saying a US style of interference will help, in fact I think it will make things worse for Africa (even worse) but some should definitely be demoted in the UN to diminished members (thinking the likes of Nigeria, Zimbabwe). Even China and the Former Iraqi state cares/d a great deal about feeding it's people. Saddam paid corrupt officials up to three times the price for food shipments back in the 90's. A few of the African governments get away with murder (literally for Mr Mugabe) under the guise of sovereign rights.
Unfortunately with the state of child rearing in Australia, the standards of authority are quire low. If parent's didn't let their "little darlings" run amok in shopping centres, public transport, aeroplanes, offices and so forth then referring to them as "crotchspawns" would be quite unreasonable.
But this is not the case, worse yet parents over here seem to be rewarding this kind of behaviour by giving the kids sweets as a bribe (since ADHD medication fell out of favour) and then trying to pacify them with the TV. I dread doing my weekly shop as people with kids tend to think they are more important then everyone else.
It's the lack of muzzle on Tony Abbott that's getting to me. Here's one thing you can do for Australia Tony, Shut The Fuck Up for a week or two.
If you were a teacher.
analyse, empathise.
realised
The teacher is Australian. (F) please resubmit.
Every armed force in the western world operates an OPFOR type organisation for just this purpose. Often using tactics, vehicles and equipment expected to be used by foreign aggressors (I.E. a lot of Ex-Soviet and old US equipment that got sold on). Sometimes up to the point where a foreign allied force is acting as OPFOR.
As an Australian, I dont see what is wrong here. Frankly we could use more of this kind of out of the box thinking in the glorified day care system that is education. But unfortunately the NIMBY's wont have a bar of it.
Credit card fees, distrust in banks. Didn't want their card rejected. People who line up are too emotionally invested in the product to take risks and not smart enough to pre-order.
Not like the price is not advertised before hand.
Like the ones I get from the ATM. Fresh cash goes into the ATM, old cash get destroyed.
Blind followers (fanboys) tend not to have original though, thus their mannerisms tend to be similar, and often seem identical to outside observers. Nothing your friend observed is outside of normal fanboy behaviour.
Why? To what end, limiting supply, creating artificial demand?
Why go to all the trouble of hiring plants, giving them money, organising them to be at certain stores, arranging a drop off of merchandise and so forth when you can just limit the supply to a few units per store like they did with the international release (as a response, few stores in Perth are advertising the Iphone at all, most are advertising Android or Nokia).
The thing about conspiracies is that the more people you involve the harder it is to keep secret and Apple haven't been able to keep very many good secrets lately. Occams razor applies, no.
Because the deaths were primarily from the Apple part of the factory, in response to increases in hours but not pay due to the demand from Apple to create enough devices for the launch.
FoxConn is a big company. they have production lines in different parts of China, even different parts of Shenzhen, but one factory/factory unit is typically dedicated to one customer. Because of the need for some training on each assembly line, the employee's do not switch between lines willy nilly. You work on one line, in one job for almost your entire length of employment (turnover is pretty high, people get sick, pregnant, go back to the village to look after mum and dad but there is always a fresh supply of young people). Also, just because Company X is also doing it, doesn't give Apple a free ride.
This is also why I prefer to by from companies like HTC, AsusTek, Gigabyte and Samsung who do most of their manufacturing in places like Taiwan, Korea and Thailand where there are laws that protect the employee (Thailand in particular, it's illegal to make an employee work more then 12 hours, after 8 you need to pay double so a relatively uneducated factory worker from Issan will earn double doing 12 hours instead of 8, so instead of earning 200 USD a month they're getting 400 USD a month). Even AMD, who I prefer over Intel does their assembly in Malaysia. It's not that more expensive, in fact my HTC phones and Asus laptops are cheaper then their Apple equivalents (not to mention more sturdy and reliable, my HTC Dream took some serious punishment).
Or you could just get an offshore bank account like most people.
Being an Apple Exec I'm sure he travels frequently (or has an excuse to do so) so just take US$9,999 out on your person per trip. 10K USD is not that large and will easily fit in a ziplock bag in a jacket or hip pocket. I carry about A$$4-5,000 in A$50 notes on trips and never have any trouble (because Aussie banks will charge me A$27 in fees per A$1000 OS ATM transaction), I just put it in my pocket and calmly walk through security.
But as you said, dumb criminals do dumb things, if he had of talked to any (dis)reputable tax lawyer he would have been advised to slowly move it out of the nation, in small lots.
Good parenting will be cheaper and more effective over a long period of time.
If your crotchspawn knew there would be punishment for making a ruckus in the doctors office, eventually they will learn to stop doing it. Instead you have fallen back to the cathode teat of TV in order to replace your responsibility of raising a healthy child.
You could just try, you know...
Talking or playing with your child, feck knows that's what my mum did with me and I spent a lot of time in hospitals and doctors offices as a child.
Google are honest and open about what they are collecting. Microsft, Yahoo et al. pretend like they dont collect anything thus Google is doing wrong.
Get yer shotguns.
So what are we living on, an Earthoid?
You know what, I'm renaming every planet to Hammer just to spite you.
Did Richard Stallman re-write a Frank Herbert novel?
Because Geeks aren't the primary purchaser of these. They are targeting the hipster and wannabe hipsters.
Well that's the plan. But any good business plan has allowed for a slow migration from one system to another. Microsoft still supports XP (and 2000 if you're willing to pay for it) because their customers have not migrated, but they are doing everything in their power to get customers to migrate to current versions (Win7/Server 08).
It's been obvious since Steve Jobs' rant about the PC industry "achangin" that he's planning on killing the Desktop Mac, this needs to be done slowly however but people are being subtly prepared for it. Of course to the larger IT industry it represents Apple leaving the IT industry in general but Apple and their fanboys tend to have this delusion that the industry is following them.
I'm certain they dont intend to, they think people will follow them regardless of what Apple does. Apple has shot themselves in the foot before. Big time, with the Apple Lisa and by perusing Microsoft with the look and feel law suit. That history seems to be repeating itself.
HTC SW patent suit == MS "Look and Feel" suit. Once again, Apple is suing of spurious reasons with a small chance to win in order to attack competition they cant go toe to toe with (Google and HTC can work faster then Apple).
Ipad == Apple Lisa. The Lisa is a great thing on paper, in reality it was overpriced, overbuilt and did not deliver the functionality of cheaper, less advanced IBM PC's of the day. The same is true of the Ipad and it will go the same way as hundreds of cheaper and more functional tablets get released in Q4 2009 as well as Q1 and Q2 2010. Unless the whole tablet fad blows over, in either case the end result is the same for Apple.
Well it is entirely possible to replace entire sub systems on Android due to it being Open Source.
Samsung being an OEM and OHA (Open Handset Alliance) member means that they may also have access to pre-release code from 3.0.
Of course this is just speculation, although I'd be interested to see what it's like when it is released. We consider a 1920x1080 to be a good resolution on a 40" screen, why isn't 800x480 a good resolution on a 7" screen? (at 40" that scales to approx 5600x3400).
I work in the GIS industry and tablets have also be successful here, in particular the ruggardised ones that cost US$5K a peice. The Ipad has the same problem as any other tablet, they are uncomfortable for long term use. When field services get back, they plug the tablet in, get the data off it and work on their desktop/laptop. The tablet in reality remains a niche item.
The only way this will change is when the tablet becomes cheap enough and functional enough to operate as a peripheral. In order to do this it need to to work with a PC or laptop, any PC or laptop without third party software. The functions that will be needed are, mass storage, the ability to transfer data to and from a device from a set point (what Chrome to Phone does) I.E. to transfer a document and have it open on the tablet at the spot you were reading, function as an I/O device and become part of a corporate network (I.E. join a domain).
The Ipad fails at all four of these functions by design. The Ipad is meant to be independent of anything but Itunes on one PC and ultimately that will be its biggest failing as cheaper and more functional tablets come to the market (or the whole tablet thing falls on its face... again).
If the display is half as good as my old Series 5 LCD TV, I'll be buying one as soon as they are available.
Blu-Ray's crappiness comes from Sony, who determine how other manufacturers can implement the spec.
As of 2.0, this is not the case. With Tivo and Iphone, you have to hack it to get basic functionality. With Android you only have to hack it if you want to get access to the kernel to install a driver. Using the examples of Sony and Motorola are not indicative of Android, they are indicative of Sony and Motorola. HTC and Samsung have proven to be quite open to custom ROMs, HTC to the point of providing support to XDA developers (probably wants some good will when XDA dev code shows up in HTC ROMs).
Not to mention Meizu, who are making quite open handsets because it's cheaper then locking them down.
Android the OS is separate to the companies that make the phones.