"In order to ensure continued access to scarce skillsets that are key to our ability to innovate, we need to be able to draw flexibly from a global pool of professionals."
Wait a minute. Microsoft has the ability to innovate? Who knew!
Wait a minute. Microsoft has the ability to innovate? Who knew!
Are you kidding? All Microsoft DOES is "innovate".
What they NEVER seem to do (or only rarely), is stick to a particular technology long enough to actually get it working, before abandoning it for the next generation of buzzwords and alphabet soup that never quite work, before it's time for "Rinse and Repeat"...
They were under ATC. ATC can track objects in the air, even if they're not using a transponder. Using primary radar, ATC will be able to provide traffic advisories. Police helicopters usually fly under "flight following", meaning they would like to be informed of other traffic.
Oh, noes! You KNOW that isn't true!
Don'tcha remember?!? On 9/11/01., all the "Hijacked" Airliners simply DISAPPEARED from RADAR because they switched their Transponders off... (Rolls eyes) [/sarcasm]
No, those kids grew up to be responsible adults with good paying jobs while you grew up to sit around in a Starbucks all day, mooching off of their free wifi and refills trying to show everyone how much of an arteest you think you are.
You are like one of those guys with bad priorities who spends hundreds of dollars on a pair of shoes because you think it will make you a sports star.
LOLWUT?
I've only been in a Starbucks once in my life, and that was because someone I was with wanted to stop there.
And as for shoes, the most expensive pair of shoes I have ever bought was about $135. And I have never paid ov $20 for a pair of "sports" shoes. Doesn't make sense for me. I run the heels over too fast to make that make economic sense.
I have, however, been employed pretty steadily for the past forty years as an embedded engineer and applications developer.
No longer is Little Johnny just the nancy nerd artist that the varsity football players make fun of. Now he thinks he's Big Johnny, a Ruby on Rails ninja and web designer guru, all thanks to his MacBook Pro.
And all the snot-nosed, socially retarded, little script kiddies huddled in their Mom's basements pawing their greasy fingers over their creaky little POS plastic shitbox computers somehow don't think they are the "World's Greatest Hax0rs(tm)"?
I think the app store is inherently evil in how they regulate apps (think VLC, anything with F/OSS code in it)
Ahem. Get your facts straight.
One of the Developers of VLC decided to have a hissy fit and VOLUNTARILY REMOVED VLC from the App Store. Apple didn't "ban" VLC. VLC "banned" ITSELF.
And F/OSS? Point to me where it says that App Store apps (whether iOS or OS X) cannot have F/OSS code in them? Hell, on the Apple website, the damned *OS*(es) have pages crowing about the number of F/OSS Projects that OS X (and iOS) incorporate (and to which Apple contributes and/or has initiated themselves).
They don't call it homOSeX without good reason. Studies show that nearly half of Apple users are homosexual, compared to less than 10% of the general population.
Their products are grossly over hyped and not nearly as magical as their overpaid shills in the press like to claim.
Yeah. Well come back when you can answer a phone call on your shitastic Lin/Win laptop using your Android phone in your bookbag with zero configuration.
Apple has always been hostile to unified look on their platform.
You do realize, of course, that you are talking about the company that literally wrote the book on good, consistent UI design, right?
The above, linked pdf copy dates from 1995 (the earliest actual copy I could find in a 2 minute search), but Apple first published their most-excellent HIG manual on or around 1985, before most slashdotters were even born.
Please provide a link to any mainstream working application for Mac OS X that uses Qt. I don't know of a single one because Qt's support for XCode is incredibly poor.
Ok, I know for a fact (by having several email volleys with the Developer) that Eagle PCB/Schematic Capture, etc. CAD/CAE suite uses Qt on OS X.
And I'm sure there are some others on this list. In fact, about 1/2 of the Qt-based engineering apps listed at the bottom of the page list OS X as a Target OS:
But if I install an app that asks for it on an Android 4.0 device, the app will install without any warnings. If the device is then upgraded to 4.2, the app will silently get the "Across_users" permission activated. So now we have a user-installed app which has a permission that it could never legitimately have that lets it bypass security and the sandbox, and the user will be unaware of the problem.
Mod Parent UP.
That is EXACTLY it in a nutshell. Perfectly described.
Pretty devious way for someone like the NSA (or a Prince from Nairobi) to get their hooks into your Android.
Interesting how you play down Android vulnerabilities whilst playing up iOS ones.
And, unlike the case with the vast majority of Android Devices, since Apple actually pushes update notices to iOS Devices, there is actually a pretty good chance that yours will be on the list."
And before the haters cry that the latest ssl patch wasn't pushed out to iOS 5 users (or before), remember that the ssl vulnerability came with iOS 6; iOS 5 and before did not have the vulnerability.
But you conveniently fail to mention three very important facts:
1. Apple has brought back nearly all of the capabilities of FCP 7. There isn't a mass-exodus anymore (actually, ther never was. Most FCP 6 or 7 users simply continued to use those versions until FCPX matured), and many Pros have actually switched back.
2. Apple launched a campaign this March, specifically targeted at video professionals, effectively saying "Come on in. FCPX is ready"
3. The recent "paradigm-shift" update to Logic Pro, making it look more like FCPX, has been nearly universally Praised; PARTICULARLY for the fact that all, or nearly all, of the "old features" have been retained, along with the added benefit of the re-factored GUI.
So, Apple DOES care about Pros and their Pro Apps, and Apple DOES learn from its mistakes.
Now, here comes the ad Hominem attack based on my Username...
No, you know what looks dated: The UI elements in the Windows Modern UI (Windows 8, Ms Server 2012, et al.). I swear it's like they pulled up the Windows 3.1 theme...
Dear Steve,
Heard about the reorganization.
Sounds great! Keep up the good work!
It's visionaries like you that have made Microsoff what it is today.
-Tim Cook
Exactly. As an autodidactic embedded dev. With over 3 decades of paid experience, who now has to content myself writing Windows business-apps, THE biggest problem in securing a job that isn't a "handshake deal" is getting past the HR weenie with the buzzword-checklist. If your can't get past that person, you'll never be able to talk to the person that will understand that you can walk the walk...
The protection they rely on is holding the device like they should. If it's taken the PIN will be trivially bypassed anyway. Now I feel like an idiot for replying to what probably amounts to a troll, but you never know.
Exactly!
That's why I don't store extensive Contact information in my phone (that's what my personal protein-based storage is for), and ZERO really juicy information. My Apple ID is stored somewhere in the phone, but not my very non-trivial password.
That way, if my phone is lost and compromised, or simply compromised, all the data-thief gets is... wait for it... a PHONE.
BTW, this is also why I don't participate in any of the voluntary data-gathering that is disguised as "social networking". It's bad enough that I have a gmail account; but I don't use that for anything anyone would be able to gain any more interesting information about me than could be gleaned by looking at my grocery-store receipts. And it's bad enough that the last 4 digits of my debit card appears on them...
Bottom line: Stop trusting others' coding and/or algorithmic prowess for your security! Security begins by not storing stuff in places other than your brain. If someone wants to kidnap me and get out the fingernail-pullers, they can have any information they want, and in short order. But absent that, unless someone successfully does a fairly-complicated (I would imagine) MITM attack between my bank's secure website and me, there's little of REAL value that could be gained by examining any of my online data, or by stealing my phone, tablet, work laptop, or home computers. They simply don't HAVE the information. My brain does.
Has my method occasionally caused me inconvenience? You bet! But security and convenience are pretty much mutually exclusive concepts, anyway, right?
I'm told that if you can figure out the magical document number, our own government will sell you a booklet explaining how to produce ethanol from waste with a solar still...
I'm told that if you can figure out the magical document number, our own government will sell you a booklet explaining how to produce ethanol from waste with a solar still...
Not to reply to my own post, but here is a "terminal" script you can run to determine the exact display p/n of your Mac:
ioreg -lw0 | grep \"EDID\" | sed "/[^]*/s///" | xxd -p -r | strings -6
13 inc MBRP are having same issue and so are the new iMacs. Not looking good.
Well, on the 15 inch rMBP, the new version of the LG display, p/n LP154WT1-SJA2, (the "2"at the end being the all-important difference), dose NOT seem to exhibit IR; so, I would imagine that similar fixes for the 13 MBP and the iMacs are either in the pipe, or already on store shelves.
Having said all that, I'm not particularly proud of the way Apple has handled this; but I suspect that the Contract Manufacturer, (presumably Foxconn) has a measure of blame in how long this has taken to resolve. That's because CMs tend to but stuff in bulk, and are loathe to throw away "perfectly-good" components, rather than just burning through the old stuff...
LCDs have lazy pixels. OLEDs, however, have burn-in as well.
That's a BIG 10-4!!!
One recent product design I was working on was an industrial motor controller/drive.For the design refresh, I desperately wanted to switch out the venerable 7-seg LED display with a nice graphical OLED display. Had a nice long-life (75 k hrs.) amber monochrome OLED display picked out, was nice and bright, cost was reasonable, display fit in the package, things were looking good...
Unfortunately, these displays typically would be showing a static image for LOOOOONG periods of time. OLEDS had a big time problem with burn-in, and the usual workaround (walk the displayed image slowly around in a small grid of pixels) was simply an attempt to smear the damage over a wider area.
The LCD vendors, however, produced displays that exhibited NO burn-in (but were deemed unsuitable by management, because they weren't nice, lambertian light sources, like LEDs). But I digress...
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"In order to ensure continued access to scarce skillsets that are key to our ability to innovate, we need to be able to draw flexibly from a global pool of professionals."
Wait a minute. Microsoft has the ability to innovate? Who knew!
Wait a minute. Microsoft has the ability to innovate? Who knew!
Are you kidding? All Microsoft DOES is "innovate".
What they NEVER seem to do (or only rarely), is stick to a particular technology long enough to actually get it working, before abandoning it for the next generation of buzzwords and alphabet soup that never quite work, before it's time for "Rinse and Repeat"...
Please educate.
They were under ATC. ATC can track objects in the air, even if they're not using a transponder. Using primary radar, ATC will be able to provide traffic advisories. Police helicopters usually fly under "flight following", meaning they would like to be informed of other traffic.
Oh, noes! You KNOW that isn't true!
Don'tcha remember?!? On 9/11/01., all the "Hijacked" Airliners simply DISAPPEARED from RADAR because they switched their Transponders off... (Rolls eyes) [/sarcasm]
No, those kids grew up to be responsible adults with good paying jobs while you grew up to sit around in a Starbucks all day, mooching off of their free wifi and refills trying to show everyone how much of an arteest you think you are.
You are like one of those guys with bad priorities who spends hundreds of dollars on a pair of shoes because you think it will make you a sports star.
LOLWUT?
I've only been in a Starbucks once in my life, and that was because someone I was with wanted to stop there.
And as for shoes, the most expensive pair of shoes I have ever bought was about $135. And I have never paid ov $20 for a pair of "sports" shoes. Doesn't make sense for me. I run the heels over too fast to make that make economic sense.
I have, however, been employed pretty steadily for the past forty years as an embedded engineer and applications developer.
So, what was that, again?
No longer is Little Johnny just the nancy nerd artist that the varsity football players make fun of. Now he thinks he's Big Johnny, a Ruby on Rails ninja and web designer guru, all thanks to his MacBook Pro.
And all the snot-nosed, socially retarded, little script kiddies huddled in their Mom's basements pawing their greasy fingers over their creaky little POS plastic shitbox computers somehow don't think they are the "World's Greatest Hax0rs(tm)"?
Yeahrightsure.
I think the app store is inherently evil in how they regulate apps (think VLC, anything with F/OSS code in it)
Ahem. Get your facts straight.
One of the Developers of VLC decided to have a hissy fit and VOLUNTARILY REMOVED VLC from the App Store. Apple didn't "ban" VLC. VLC "banned" ITSELF.
And F/OSS? Point to me where it says that App Store apps (whether iOS or OS X) cannot have F/OSS code in them? Hell, on the Apple website, the damned *OS*(es) have pages crowing about the number of F/OSS Projects that OS X (and iOS) incorporate (and to which Apple contributes and/or has initiated themselves).
WTF is your problem, hater?
They don't call it homOSeX without good reason. Studies show that nearly half of Apple users are homosexual, compared to less than 10% of the general population.
Citation, please.
Their products are grossly over hyped and not nearly as magical as their overpaid shills in the press like to claim.
Yeah. Well come back when you can answer a phone call on your shitastic Lin/Win laptop using your Android phone in your bookbag with zero configuration.
2006? Both Linux and windows had widgets implementations in the 1990s.
And Apple had them on the Mac as "Desk Accessories" in 1984, and even a primitive form on the Lisa in 1983, bitch.
Apple has always been hostile to unified look on their platform.
You do realize, of course, that you are talking about the company that literally wrote the book on good, consistent UI design, right?
The above, linked pdf copy dates from 1995 (the earliest actual copy I could find in a 2 minute search), but Apple first published their most-excellent HIG manual on or around 1985, before most slashdotters were even born.
Now, get off my lawn!
Please provide a link to any mainstream working application for Mac OS X that uses Qt. I don't know of a single one because Qt's support for XCode is incredibly poor.
Ok, I know for a fact (by having several email volleys with the Developer) that Eagle PCB/Schematic Capture, etc. CAD/CAE suite uses Qt on OS X.
http://www.cadsoftusa.com/
And I'm sure there are some others on this list. In fact, about 1/2 of the Qt-based engineering apps listed at the bottom of the page list OS X as a Target OS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
And if you want Proprietary software with OS X versions that use Qt, here's a list. I'm sure you'll recognize most of these apps:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Now, having said all that, Qt is horrible. But not unpopular...
But if I install an app that asks for it on an Android 4.0 device, the app will install without any warnings. If the device is then upgraded to 4.2, the app will silently get the "Across_users" permission activated. So now we have a user-installed app which has a permission that it could never legitimately have that lets it bypass security and the sandbox, and the user will be unaware of the problem.
Mod Parent UP.
That is EXACTLY it in a nutshell. Perfectly described.
Pretty devious way for someone like the NSA (or a Prince from Nairobi) to get their hooks into your Android.
Shudder...
Interesting how you play down Android vulnerabilities whilst playing up iOS ones.
And, unlike the case with the vast majority of Android Devices, since Apple actually pushes update notices to iOS Devices, there is actually a pretty good chance that yours will be on the list."
And before the haters cry that the latest ssl patch wasn't pushed out to iOS 5 users (or before), remember that the ssl vulnerability came with iOS 6; iOS 5 and before did not have the vulnerability.
Sure, they'll make money off of Android where they can. But they'd rather it simply wasn't there.
So, we should be expecting a similar report from MS regarding iOS, then?
Oh, wait; I said "iOS", right?...
Haven't been watching OS X for the past three or 4 years, right?
.5 secs on Google.
I found this in about
But you conveniently fail to mention three very important facts: 1. Apple has brought back nearly all of the capabilities of FCP 7. There isn't a mass-exodus anymore (actually, ther never was. Most FCP 6 or 7 users simply continued to use those versions until FCPX matured), and many Pros have actually switched back. 2. Apple launched a campaign this March, specifically targeted at video professionals, effectively saying "Come on in. FCPX is ready" 3. The recent "paradigm-shift" update to Logic Pro, making it look more like FCPX, has been nearly universally Praised; PARTICULARLY for the fact that all, or nearly all, of the "old features" have been retained, along with the added benefit of the re-factored GUI. So, Apple DOES care about Pros and their Pro Apps, and Apple DOES learn from its mistakes. Now, here comes the ad Hominem attack based on my Username...
No, you know what looks dated: The UI elements in the Windows Modern UI (Windows 8, Ms Server 2012, et al.). I swear it's like they pulled up the Windows 3.1 theme...
Dear Steve, Heard about the reorganization. Sounds great! Keep up the good work! It's visionaries like you that have made Microsoff what it is today. -Tim Cook
Exactly. As an autodidactic embedded dev. With over 3 decades of paid experience, who now has to content myself writing Windows business-apps, THE biggest problem in securing a job that isn't a "handshake deal" is getting past the HR weenie with the buzzword-checklist. If your can't get past that person, you'll never be able to talk to the person that will understand that you can walk the walk...
Seriously, don't use iOS for anything requiring real security.
I hate those FTFY posts, but in this case I believe it's called for: Don't use a phone of any kind for anything requiring real security.
I'll see that, and raise it to the more effective method of "Don't keep sensitive information anywhere but your brain."
The protection they rely on is holding the device like they should. If it's taken the PIN will be trivially bypassed anyway. Now I feel like an idiot for replying to what probably amounts to a troll, but you never know.
Exactly!
That's why I don't store extensive Contact information in my phone (that's what my personal protein-based storage is for), and ZERO really juicy information. My Apple ID is stored somewhere in the phone, but not my very non-trivial password.
That way, if my phone is lost and compromised, or simply compromised, all the data-thief gets is... wait for it... a PHONE.
BTW, this is also why I don't participate in any of the voluntary data-gathering that is disguised as "social networking". It's bad enough that I have a gmail account; but I don't use that for anything anyone would be able to gain any more interesting information about me than could be gleaned by looking at my grocery-store receipts. And it's bad enough that the last 4 digits of my debit card appears on them...
Bottom line: Stop trusting others' coding and/or algorithmic prowess for your security! Security begins by not storing stuff in places other than your brain. If someone wants to kidnap me and get out the fingernail-pullers, they can have any information they want, and in short order. But absent that, unless someone successfully does a fairly-complicated (I would imagine) MITM attack between my bank's secure website and me, there's little of REAL value that could be gained by examining any of my online data, or by stealing my phone, tablet, work laptop, or home computers. They simply don't HAVE the information. My brain does.
Has my method occasionally caused me inconvenience? You bet! But security and convenience are pretty much mutually exclusive concepts, anyway, right?
I'm told that if you can figure out the magical document number, our own government will sell you a booklet explaining how to produce ethanol from waste with a solar still...
This page is pretty helpful in that regard.
I'm told that if you can figure out the magical document number, our own government will sell you a booklet explaining how to produce ethanol from waste with a solar still...
This page is pretty helpful in that regard.
Not to reply to my own post, but here is a "terminal" script you can run to determine the exact display p/n of your Mac: ioreg -lw0 | grep \"EDID\" | sed "/[^]*/s///" | xxd -p -r | strings -6
13 inc MBRP are having same issue and so are the new iMacs. Not looking good.
Well, on the 15 inch rMBP, the new version of the LG display, p/n LP154WT1-SJA2, (the "2"at the end being the all-important difference), dose NOT seem to exhibit IR; so, I would imagine that similar fixes for the 13 MBP and the iMacs are either in the pipe, or already on store shelves.
Having said all that, I'm not particularly proud of the way Apple has handled this; but I suspect that the Contract Manufacturer, (presumably Foxconn) has a measure of blame in how long this has taken to resolve. That's because CMs tend to but stuff in bulk, and are loathe to throw away "perfectly-good" components, rather than just burning through the old stuff...
LCDs have lazy pixels. OLEDs, however, have burn-in as well.
That's a BIG 10-4!!! One recent product design I was working on was an industrial motor controller/drive.For the design refresh, I desperately wanted to switch out the venerable 7-seg LED display with a nice graphical OLED display. Had a nice long-life (75 k hrs.) amber monochrome OLED display picked out, was nice and bright, cost was reasonable, display fit in the package, things were looking good...
Unfortunately, these displays typically would be showing a static image for LOOOOONG periods of time. OLEDS had a big time problem with burn-in, and the usual workaround (walk the displayed image slowly around in a small grid of pixels) was simply an attempt to smear the damage over a wider area.
The LCD vendors, however, produced displays that exhibited NO burn-in (but were deemed unsuitable by management, because they weren't nice, lambertian light sources, like LEDs). But I digress...