Apple doesn't just ignore enterprise; they're openly hostile to enterprise. Lack of true Wake On LAN on iMacs (any not an Xserve, actually), and removal of the Xserve line of rackmount servers. These will be stand-out reasons for any company to completely ignore Apple. Company phones of the future will be Android, BB, or WinMo7 based.
I wasn't an iPhone fanboy before, but after getting the Android phone, I'm seriously considering becoming one.
in case you're not aware, the OP was talking about the iPhone alarm bug that prevent alarms from working yesterday and the day before. FYI, it would prevent any alarm. I tried setting one for 2010/01/01-19:29 at 2010/01/01-19:27. It didn't go off proving that the alarm didn't have to extend over the year mark to be effected.
You have essentially made the “might makes right” argument. If you want to argue: we should kill because we can kill, then I hope you are prepared to defend yourself against those who would want for your life and property. Lucky for you, modern civilization protects both.
Modern civilization protects no one from other humans (except maybe humans from other countries). It punishes misbehavior when caught. Very few people in danger are protected. Modern civilization does protect us from dangers like predators, prey animals (deer and moose seem to think we're predators and respond by fighting), temperature extremes.
Lastly, humans, like other primates, are herbivores. Only complete dolts suggest we need meat three times daily, or even once weekly (let alone milk, which is intended for infants). Where are our claws? Fangs? You have no built-in mechanisms with which to hunt, kill, render, or even digest the animals you intend to eat without modern tools (which came very late in our evolution).
Built in mechanism: Our legs. Ever beat an opponent in a sport by just out-lasting him? Didn't it feel exhilarating? Before we could use rocks tied to sticks to kill things, we would throw a club at them, then chase them slowly for miles until they passed out from exhaustion, then we'd walk up and club them by hand. All that running takes a lot of calories, and ancient man wasn't in a pasta-making mood.
Regarding digestion, you do realize that humans _can_ metabolize raw meat/fat, but only in small doses? Cooking meat came before modern man (because cooking meat reduces the energy required to digest it, that energy can be applied to the brain).
For anecdotal evidence to this point, look around at the disgustingly obese people all around you.
Anecdotal evidence: I eat mostly meat with some vegis/fruits and occasional grains. I am below 25 BMI, but I bet your anemic vegetarian wireframe doesn't have enough fat to last a drought. Vegetarian lifestyle can't subsist without farming and preservation - modern tools. Ancient humans (pre-farming) would die out during the first winter or drought if they were herbivores.
I never know what to think when people spew on about contrails.
Is it just some cosmic coincidence that when the U.S. didn't have any contrails nine years ago, people across the world were gripped with strong emotion, either cheering or sad? Contrails are psychic pacifiers, man. When the settings sun hits them and makes them all orange and pink against a blue backdrop, it messes with your junk, makes you less manly. Ray-bans nullify the effect due to polarized crystal prism power in the lenses.
There are uncounted numbers of extremely crappy jobs where people get up for on the weekends. Especially in aviation, power generation, medical and law enforcement. Pilots, policemen, doctors, nurses, power plant managers -
And the on-call iPhone Alarm app devs (this weekend at least).
> > with a backup battery...
> the alarm will not ring if the power is out at the time of the alarm.
Ha? Hence the backup battery. 5 Informative, really?
Yes, 5 Informative. Really. Most clock radio backup batteries only keep the time circuits going in the event of power failure, just like the clock batteries in computers. Alarm circuits are ignored (especially if the alarm is set to radio wakeup mode). If you want a totally reliable clock radio, you use a UPS or find one with one built in.
4. Who cares about a 4-year BS? For crying out loud, I never even finished high school, nor did I get a GED. Instead, I hopped on over to doing college, where I got a BA in Psychology.
So you're the guy who wrote the $999.99 app? Excellent use of your degree.
I remember learning the correct date formulas in the first semester. What's so hard about them?
They were different by second semester. The problem with rolling your own date/time functions is that people keep switching things, adding a second to a year due to a close earth asteroid or switching when DST is applied. The problem with using the common libraries is that you need to update the library regularly and trust that the library maintainer is doing the above.
Not good enough for me yet. I don't always have internet service, and I'm not getting cable and DSL just to ensure my Ubisoft games work when I want them to. I'll stick with my 1990's manual-based DRM games, thank you very much. They haven't stopped working, and are actually more enjoyable. That or my wii.
I'm in the upper U.S. Midwest right now on New Years Eve.
And its raining.
In all my years living, I have never seen it rain on New Years Eve before. New Years Eve here has always been extremely cold and snowy. Today, its warm and rainy.
Lovely anecdote. I'm in the mid-to-upper-midwest, and we just had a prolonged cold period that didn't reach above 32F (freezing) until Dec30. We don't usually get snow that lasts for weeks until February. That said, I remember snow in June, and I remember rain in January. It's called weather. Live a little longer and you'll remember a varied degree of it.
They don't know HOW to react when you give it right back to them and usually back down...
Only the rookies. Anyone who has had that job for more than a year will know exactly the way to maneuver a belligerent "perp" into getting forcefully restrained and arrested for talking back. Be polite. Say "Yes Officer/No Officer". Have your license and registration ready and in your hands at the 10-2 before they arrive at your window. Make them feel like they're in control, and they'll be more likely to chat pleasantly with you and give you a "don't be naughty" line.
Punishing people for drinking and driving is like punishing people for having small pads on their boards.
No, punishing people for drinking and driving is like punishing people for drinking and shooting at a hill near an office building without hitting the building (but shooting wildly and erratically so that they might be more likely to hit the building, passersby, stray pigeons). A two ton mass of steel moving at 45+mph is a deadly weapon. It is illegal to operate under mind-altering drugs, of which alcohol is one.
You seem to think that maybe I'm for unreasonable searches or roadblocks. I think a more measured approach makes more sense. Something like when a cop sees a weaving car on the road, he shoots the driver in the head and asks questions later. See? I can be ridiculous too.
There is no problem. Interns in government are hot. See? (holds up Girls of DC issue)
When did Wonder Woman, Power Girl, Cat Woman, et al start working as interns? And why don't I have a Girls of DC issue?
[GrouchoMarx](Not that I don't have some issues)[/GrouchoMarx]
If someone gets drunk and hits a fence post or otherwise breaks the law you punish them. But why punish people who haven't caused any actual problems because you don't agree with the risks they take?
"Hey, Officer. Sure I was drinking and shooting my M60 at that nearby office building. But I totally missed it. The whole building! I only shot the hill behind it. And no one was hurt. Why punish me because you don't agree with the risks I take?"
Is "Attempted Murder" a crime?
You boot licking, cockucking, faggot pussy who would rather trade yours(and everyone else's) freedom for some type of illusionary freedom. Hope your mom and sister, and wife and daughter all get fucking raped by AIDS infected niggers. Because if the cunts were in the kitchen where they belong, they would not have gotten raped.
Forget drinking and driving: this is a perfect example of drinking and posting on Slashdot.
Slashdot Mirror
there's not nearly as much money in it as replacing Microsoft in the home
Apparently, it's not only the home, it's also the office, according to the article: demand for tablets is high in enterprise environments.
As status symbols. Next year it will be tiger cubs. Year after that: not being eaten by tigers.
Open directory is actually a very poor replacement of active directory. Puppet or some other client config control mechanism is needed too.
Apple doesn't just ignore enterprise; they're openly hostile to enterprise. Lack of true Wake On LAN on iMacs (any not an Xserve, actually), and removal of the Xserve line of rackmount servers. These will be stand-out reasons for any company to completely ignore Apple. Company phones of the future will be Android, BB, or WinMo7 based.
Just be glad you're not lousing count.
that one's your favorite? I like the Ubuntu installer finally I can do x264 encodes on my smart-phone.
Make an app for that and you can distribute the render over a cluster of other people's phones.
I wasn't an iPhone fanboy before, but after getting the Android phone, I'm seriously considering becoming one.
in case you're not aware, the OP was talking about the iPhone alarm bug that prevent alarms from working yesterday and the day before. FYI, it would prevent any alarm. I tried setting one for 2010/01/01-19:29 at 2010/01/01-19:27. It didn't go off proving that the alarm didn't have to extend over the year mark to be effected.
You have essentially made the “might makes right” argument. If you want to argue: we should kill because we can kill, then I hope you are prepared to defend yourself against those who would want for your life and property. Lucky for you, modern civilization protects both.
Modern civilization protects no one from other humans (except maybe humans from other countries). It punishes misbehavior when caught. Very few people in danger are protected. Modern civilization does protect us from dangers like predators, prey animals (deer and moose seem to think we're predators and respond by fighting), temperature extremes.
Lastly, humans, like other primates, are herbivores. Only complete dolts suggest we need meat three times daily, or even once weekly (let alone milk, which is intended for infants). Where are our claws? Fangs? You have no built-in mechanisms with which to hunt, kill, render, or even digest the animals you intend to eat without modern tools (which came very late in our evolution).
Built in mechanism: Our legs. Ever beat an opponent in a sport by just out-lasting him? Didn't it feel exhilarating? Before we could use rocks tied to sticks to kill things, we would throw a club at them, then chase them slowly for miles until they passed out from exhaustion, then we'd walk up and club them by hand. All that running takes a lot of calories, and ancient man wasn't in a pasta-making mood.
Regarding digestion, you do realize that humans _can_ metabolize raw meat/fat, but only in small doses? Cooking meat came before modern man (because cooking meat reduces the energy required to digest it, that energy can be applied to the brain).
For anecdotal evidence to this point, look around at the disgustingly obese people all around you.
Anecdotal evidence: I eat mostly meat with some vegis/fruits and occasional grains. I am below 25 BMI, but I bet your anemic vegetarian wireframe doesn't have enough fat to last a drought. Vegetarian lifestyle can't subsist without farming and preservation - modern tools. Ancient humans (pre-farming) would die out during the first winter or drought if they were herbivores.
I never know what to think when people spew on about contrails.
Is it just some cosmic coincidence that when the U.S. didn't have any contrails nine years ago, people across the world were gripped with strong emotion, either cheering or sad? Contrails are psychic pacifiers, man. When the settings sun hits them and makes them all orange and pink against a blue backdrop, it messes with your junk, makes you less manly. Ray-bans nullify the effect due to polarized crystal prism power in the lenses.
So what, earthquake lights zapped the birds' magnet sensors and made them think "south" was "down" (or up)?
It seems obvious to me.
The fish, sick of living under bird oppression, poisoned themselves in a mass suicide so that when the birds ate them they would all die as well...
Don't breathe the kool-aid!
There are uncounted numbers of extremely crappy jobs where people get up for on the weekends. Especially in aviation, power generation, medical and law enforcement. Pilots, policemen, doctors, nurses, power plant managers -
And the on-call iPhone Alarm app devs (this weekend at least).
> > with a backup battery ...
> the alarm will not ring if the power is out at the time of the alarm.
Ha? Hence the backup battery. 5 Informative, really?
Yes, 5 Informative. Really. Most clock radio backup batteries only keep the time circuits going in the event of power failure, just like the clock batteries in computers. Alarm circuits are ignored (especially if the alarm is set to radio wakeup mode). If you want a totally reliable clock radio, you use a UPS or find one with one built in.
4. Who cares about a 4-year BS? For crying out loud, I never even finished high school, nor did I get a GED. Instead, I hopped on over to doing college, where I got a BA in Psychology.
So you're the guy who wrote the $999.99 app? Excellent use of your degree.
I remember learning the correct date formulas in the first semester. What's so hard about them?
They were different by second semester. The problem with rolling your own date/time functions is that people keep switching things, adding a second to a year due to a close earth asteroid or switching when DST is applied. The problem with using the common libraries is that you need to update the library regularly and trust that the library maintainer is doing the above.
Not good enough for me yet. I don't always have internet service, and I'm not getting cable and DSL just to ensure my Ubisoft games work when I want them to. I'll stick with my 1990's manual-based DRM games, thank you very much. They haven't stopped working, and are actually more enjoyable. That or my wii.
EVERYTHING is made up of chemicals, EVERYTHING.
Light? Space? Time? Altruism?
I'm in the upper U.S. Midwest right now on New Years Eve.
And its raining.
In all my years living, I have never seen it rain on New Years Eve before. New Years Eve here has always been extremely cold and snowy. Today, its warm and rainy.
Lovely anecdote. I'm in the mid-to-upper-midwest, and we just had a prolonged cold period that didn't reach above 32F (freezing) until Dec30. We don't usually get snow that lasts for weeks until February. That said, I remember snow in June, and I remember rain in January. It's called weather. Live a little longer and you'll remember a varied degree of it.
Sorry I was wrong
my 48 watt quad tube CFL spot light is the equivalent of a 240 watt incandescent not 500 watts as I though.
But my point is I can hold this 48 watt CLF light in my hand, have you ever tyred to hold a 48 watt halogen?
http://www.getprice.com.au/Quad-Tube-48W-Office-Light-BC-Gpnc_733--43060915.htm
paint them both black and try the experiment again. Suggestion: use rare steak on shish kabobs to touch the lamps.
They don't know HOW to react when you give it right back to them and usually back down...
Only the rookies. Anyone who has had that job for more than a year will know exactly the way to maneuver a belligerent "perp" into getting forcefully restrained and arrested for talking back. Be polite. Say "Yes Officer/No Officer". Have your license and registration ready and in your hands at the 10-2 before they arrive at your window. Make them feel like they're in control, and they'll be more likely to chat pleasantly with you and give you a "don't be naughty" line.
Punishing people for drinking and driving is like punishing people for having small pads on their boards.
No, punishing people for drinking and driving is like punishing people for drinking and shooting at a hill near an office building without hitting the building (but shooting wildly and erratically so that they might be more likely to hit the building, passersby, stray pigeons). A two ton mass of steel moving at 45+mph is a deadly weapon. It is illegal to operate under mind-altering drugs, of which alcohol is one.
You seem to think that maybe I'm for unreasonable searches or roadblocks. I think a more measured approach makes more sense. Something like when a cop sees a weaving car on the road, he shoots the driver in the head and asks questions later. See? I can be ridiculous too.
>>>The problem with T&A in government...
There is no problem. Interns in government are hot. See? (holds up Girls of DC issue)
When did Wonder Woman, Power Girl, Cat Woman, et al start working as interns? And why don't I have a Girls of DC issue?
[GrouchoMarx](Not that I don't have some issues)[/GrouchoMarx]
If someone gets drunk and hits a fence post or otherwise breaks the law you punish them. But why punish people who haven't caused any actual problems because you don't agree with the risks they take?
"Hey, Officer. Sure I was drinking and shooting my M60 at that nearby office building. But I totally missed it. The whole building! I only shot the hill behind it. And no one was hurt. Why punish me because you don't agree with the risks I take?"
Is "Attempted Murder" a crime?
Forget drinking and driving: this is a perfect example of drinking and posting on Slashdot.
Still perfectly legal. God Bless America.
Mothers Against Canada
I see what you did there. "Mothers Against Drunk Driving" where ("Drunk Driving" == Canada)
Clever.
say the alphabet, starting with T and ending with S. Drunk people have a surprisingly difficult time with that
Not too surprising, as there's nothing between the two and S comes before T. It's a question designed to make anyone go "huh?"