Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
You have misquoted Emo Phillips. The correct quote is:
"Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps."
That's entirely possible. However, it is also possible that he is misquoting me, since I have been using that tagline since the days of logging into BBSs using Telix on a 286 in the late 80s. I am sure that I copied it accurately from the guy I swiped it from, because my tagline management program was really good at that.
Oh, so HE misquoted Emo.;-)
I just noticed because I've used that line off and on since I first heard it around 1990 or so (I think).
No, Mr Cook, I'm being serious. Ever since the iWristwatch, Apple has had the stink of desperation on it.
I think Apple did the Apple Watch because everyone EXPECTED them to do it; not because they thought it was the greatest new thing ever.
The issue is not "Desparation", so much as "Having most, if not all, of the "boxes" checked already."
Honestly, can you think of another new CLASS of product that would fall logically into Apple's wheelhouse (or any company making similar products?) that anyone has come up with in the past 5 years or so? The Smartwatch is pretty much "it".
Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality is just now becoming sorta interesting. Rumor has it that Apple has been snapping-up talent in that area for about the past year or so.
But computer improvements in general (hardware-wise) have been slowing down across the board; same with mobile. It happens.
For example, when was the last big improvement in home entertainment systems? Product classifications and industries (and consumer tastes) change and mature over time. High-tech stuff is no different.
If Apple is desparate, it is because the entire industry is desparate.
If you can find me another company in a similar product-space as Apple that is truly burning-up the press with stuff that is more than just incremental improvements to existing products, that truly changes the way all similar products look and act, like the iPhone did for cellphones, or are truly a new CLASS of product, I'm all eyes.
From a practical standpoint, it would seem that these devices must be more alike than different.
Imagine if car manufacturers sued each other for similar design attributes.
You have four wheels. The steering wheel is on the left side. You have a key to start your vehicle. I'm suing you because your design is so similar to mine.
what probably happened is apple did what they usually do, work with foxconn to develop the next models. someone at foxconn took early drawings and gave them to another company who actually got a barely-similar model out to market before apple's fairly predictable development cycle could.
and a patent ruling that only affects ONE CITY? wtf is what? that itself sounds like a sham. imagine imagine if all the rulings in east texas only applied in east texas district....
That is EXACTLY what happened. I would bet anything on that, knowing how Chinese "product development" works.
Their phone was released 6 months before the iPhone. Unless you think that they invented time-travel, the odds are that their design was completed long before the iPhone in question was released.
Yeah, it probably was, but can you say that these two designs really resemble each other?
Six months? How long before release do you think Foxconn was making iPhone 6 prototypes for Apple?
People around here have absolutely no concept of how long product design cycles are.
I wouldn't be at ALL surprised if Foxconn was making iPhone 8 prototypes right now.
I really think you just "assembled" this list of your specialties, and that is the assembly you know. Just to let you know, these are not consistent. There is no way in hell for a low level "Embedded" programmer to like php and don't like c++. This just can't be the case.
Maybe in your little world; but I assure you that every word of my "Skills Overview" is true. And it is in NO WAY complete. My frickin' resume runs to SEVEN pages if I list everything, even in the typical resume "synopsis" form.
Would it have helped if I also mentioned my LabView/G Experience as well? I forgot about that, as well as my FoxPro, FileMaker Pro, Lotus Notes programming/scripting experience, along with my stint teaching Desktop Publishing for an Adult Continuing Education class? Or would that have also seemed impossible for your widdle brain to contemplate?
And I just have some sort of mental-block against learning or using C++. I feel like PHP is closer to C than C++. Maybe I just haven't gotten into that deep of a project to see the similarities; but I just sort of approach it as standard C, with Database-y "extensions". Haven't done THAT much in it; but have done a little volunteer web programming, and a little paid programming in PHP. I wouldn't consider myself an expert in web development in any way, shape, or form, though. However, embedded hardware/software development is my true forte.
And as an embedded coder, why the hell are you a "Certified MS SQL Servern Admin"? and honestly if you are as you say, change that username. That doesn't suit you.
Well, it's called "getting laid off and having to re-invent yourself." You'll understand some day...
When you are almost 60 years old and find yourself cast-out of your chosen career path (and, since this was 2009, there wasn't a whole lot of R&D happening in Indiana where I live, and my PAID FOR house is (talk about an "anchor"!!!)), and you hate the fact that what embedded development work there is, has devolved into chasing one 6 month Contract Job after another, ALL of them requiring moving from one end of the country to another (not exactly compatible with my age-group), you tend to opt for a less-than-optimal, but EASY path.
In my case, that meant a handshake gig at a mom-and-pop (literally!) software consultancy, writing Windows ERP software (yes, I hate it!). Along the way, they needed someone to acquire a SQL Server Admin certificate, and so I studied-up and passed the exam on the first try.
Even though I am a Mac guy through and through, just like most people that work designing software and hardware, I have had to resort to using Windows stuff for Development some (a lot of) times. And that has often meant doing at least lightweight "Admin" work. So, it isn't like I was unfamiliar with Administration in a Windows environment.
As for my Username, it reflects my "wish" for the world. So shove off!
P.S. I am typing this on a Mac, And I am an embedded programmer. So I don't think I have any problem with macs, but what you say just doesn't make sense.
Sorry, all true.
And I have done a lot of embedded work using first, Apple ][s, then later, Macs, whenever possible. I was even doing PCB designs on Toaster Macs back in 1984-85 for some stuff I developed.
Don't get me wrong; I have probably done the majority of my embedded software/hardware work using various Windows tools; but I have also done a few projects where I could do the entire thing on a Mac.
FORTUNATELY, that's getting a little easier now, with Microchip porting their toolchain to OS X, and other stuff.
But at this point, I haven't been doing embedded development since early 2009, when I was laid-off due to the recession (and the fact that my new boss (who just happened to be neighbors with the President of the Company I was working-for) didn't like the fact that I knew he was a poser, and basically made no bones about it).
Yeah, I came here to say something similar, then I saw your post. Is there something (aside from the legal issues) that make marijuana a unique product?
Nope. It is the same as growing and selling any cash crop, as far as production, inventory, logistics and bookkeeping go.
Probably for copy deterrence. Because major mobile browsers don't support the sort of extensions that desktop browsers such as Firefox support, it's easier for a user to run a stream recording extension on Firefox than in, say, Safari for iOS. So users of desktop browsers are required to do the streaming inside a piece of proprietary software that is opaque to browser extensions, namely Flash Player.
Yeah, because that stopped everyone from creating Applications that (I assume) identified as Browsers, that you could point to a URL serving up FLV and capture a copy of virtually any streamed Flash video, right?
Oh, wait...
As I said, PUNISHMENT for not bowing to the Demon of Flash...
Apple is notorious for this. They ditched floppy drives back when most hardware still shipped drivers on floppies. They switched to USB before most vendors were ready. Then they more or less abandoned optical drives when the world was awash in disks. Sometimes it seems like if someone like Apple doesn't come along and force the issue the industry will happily sit on old technology for well past its use by date.
But they all have one thing in common: no one tests in Safari.
That became the case once Apple terminated development of Safari for Windows. This meant it suddenly cost $500 to $600 to buy a second computer on which to run a copy of Safari in which to test your site. And then you have to pay $500 to $600 more four to six years later when Apple stops porting new versions of Safari to your version of OS X or new versions of macOS to your Mac. For example, a 2009 Mac mini running Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" can't be upgraded past OS X 10.11 "El Capitan".
News Flash: Use a Mac, and you only NEED one computer for web development, because you can run all the OSes you'd ever want on it.
News Flash #2: Get over it. Sometimes work requires the purchasing of tools. Ask any mechanic how much he gives to the Snap-On or Mac Tools man. It will make the cost of ANY computer seem like a trivial expense.
Maybe you could force it to use h.264 by uninstalling Flash?
Users with "mobile" User-agent values get the H.264 video. Users with "desktop" User-agent values get "Install Adobe Flash Player".
This has always annoyed me.
If I can go to a site with my iPad and it happily serves up content, then that means the web monkeys have already "solved" that site's Flash-dependency problem.
So why in HELL do they feel justified in PUNISHING me for not wanting Flash on my laptop? After all, even ADOBE wants people off of Flash, FFS!
Maybe you could force it to use h.264 by uninstalling Flash?
I only leave Flash installed on IE, and only fire up IE when I run across that rare website where there is no option than to enable Flash. Websites like that are exceedingly rare these days. It's usually just internal corporate crap that is only happy with IE anyway.
When I bought my MacBook Pro in 2013, it didn't come with Flash installed. I decided to see how long I could resist installing Flash.
I am still Flash-free on that machine. Once in awhile I run into a site that won't show content; but the internet is big, and I would rather give my visits to sites without lazy web developers.
I'm sure many people will whine about being underwhelmed by this year's WWDC and the lack of any new hardware announcements, etc. But IMO, there were some really solid improvements shown. The "universal clipboard" is a HUGE improvement, IMO.
How often are you switching between devices like this? In a meaningful and useful way? I don't want to accidentally copy/paste some code snipped on my iPhone. I can tell you the number of times I want to actually do this: Once per iPhone connected to my WiFi network at home. That's it. I don't like having to copy/paste my WiFi key. But guess what, I can just sync that already with notes. So I guess really my count goes down to 0. Now you want to talk about a meaningful way to transfer documents between my phone and my computer? That is a different story. Right now I have to fire up webdav or use email to copy a picture or a PDF from my computer to phone or vice versa. I'm far more likely to want to print something to PDF on my computer and haul it with me on my phone than I am going to want to copy and paste from my computer to my phone.
Oh and that's something you can easily do with Android but can't so conveniently do on an iPhone.
You apparently have never heard of GoodReader. Best $5 you will ever spend.
I have heard of GoodReader. But like I said it is not a native file manager. I obviously know that there are other ways to manage files with iOS or I wouldn't have mentioned webdav. And guess what? You could use that to copy/paste text between your phone and your computer via text files. So why does Apple need to add native copy/paste 'continuity' between machines? I mean that's basically what you've said in your last two replies to me.
I think I'll wait a year or so to upgrade. Just to let them get all the kinks out of upgrading the entire file system on my Mac. And my Time Machine backup. And my external HD....
They haven't even finalized the specs yet. It isn't in the OS, nor will it be for at least a couple more years.
At least that choice is up to the user. I'm less worried about other devices on my own account than about how the data gets to those devices. Who can see my paste buffer in transit? Otherwise, I can see the convenience.
They mentioned the clipboard xfers are end-to-end encrypted.
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Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
You have misquoted Emo Phillips. The correct quote is: "Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps."
That's entirely possible. However, it is also possible that he is misquoting me, since I have been using that tagline since the days of logging into BBSs using Telix on a 286 in the late 80s. I am sure that I copied it accurately from the guy I swiped it from, because my tagline management program was really good at that.
Oh, so HE misquoted Emo. ;-)
I just noticed because I've used that line off and on since I first heard it around 1990 or so (I think).
No, Mr Cook, I'm being serious. Ever since the iWristwatch, Apple has had the stink of desperation on it.
I think Apple did the Apple Watch because everyone EXPECTED them to do it; not because they thought it was the greatest new thing ever.
The issue is not "Desparation", so much as "Having most, if not all, of the "boxes" checked already."
Honestly, can you think of another new CLASS of product that would fall logically into Apple's wheelhouse (or any company making similar products?) that anyone has come up with in the past 5 years or so? The Smartwatch is pretty much "it".
Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality is just now becoming sorta interesting. Rumor has it that Apple has been snapping-up talent in that area for about the past year or so.
But computer improvements in general (hardware-wise) have been slowing down across the board; same with mobile. It happens.
For example, when was the last big improvement in home entertainment systems? Product classifications and industries (and consumer tastes) change and mature over time. High-tech stuff is no different.
If Apple is desparate, it is because the entire industry is desparate.
If you can find me another company in a similar product-space as Apple that is truly burning-up the press with stuff that is more than just incremental improvements to existing products, that truly changes the way all similar products look and act, like the iPhone did for cellphones, or are truly a new CLASS of product, I'm all eyes.
From a practical standpoint, it would seem that these devices must be more alike than different. Imagine if car manufacturers sued each other for similar design attributes. You have four wheels. The steering wheel is on the left side. You have a key to start your vehicle. I'm suing you because your design is so similar to mine.
Precisely.
what probably happened is apple did what they usually do, work with foxconn to develop the next models. someone at foxconn took early drawings and gave them to another company who actually got a barely-similar model out to market before apple's fairly predictable development cycle could.
and a patent ruling that only affects ONE CITY? wtf is what? that itself sounds like a sham. imagine imagine if all the rulings in east texas only applied in east texas district....
That is EXACTLY what happened. I would bet anything on that, knowing how Chinese "product development" works.
Their phone was released 6 months before the iPhone. Unless you think that they invented time-travel, the odds are that their design was completed long before the iPhone in question was released.
Yeah, it probably was, but can you say that these two designs really resemble each other?
Six months? How long before release do you think Foxconn was making iPhone 6 prototypes for Apple?
People around here have absolutely no concept of how long product design cycles are.
I wouldn't be at ALL surprised if Foxconn was making iPhone 8 prototypes right now.
Isn't a more interesting question, "How far has Apple fallen that they now have to copy Chinese designs?"
That's sarcasm, I assume.
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
You have misquoted Emo Phillips. The correct quote is: "Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps."
I really think you just "assembled" this list of your specialties, and that is the assembly you know. Just to let you know, these are not consistent. There is no way in hell for a low level "Embedded" programmer to like php and don't like c++. This just can't be the case.
Maybe in your little world; but I assure you that every word of my "Skills Overview" is true. And it is in NO WAY complete. My frickin' resume runs to SEVEN pages if I list everything, even in the typical resume "synopsis" form.
Would it have helped if I also mentioned my LabView/G Experience as well? I forgot about that, as well as my FoxPro, FileMaker Pro, Lotus Notes programming/scripting experience, along with my stint teaching Desktop Publishing for an Adult Continuing Education class? Or would that have also seemed impossible for your widdle brain to contemplate?
And I just have some sort of mental-block against learning or using C++. I feel like PHP is closer to C than C++. Maybe I just haven't gotten into that deep of a project to see the similarities; but I just sort of approach it as standard C, with Database-y "extensions". Haven't done THAT much in it; but have done a little volunteer web programming, and a little paid programming in PHP. I wouldn't consider myself an expert in web development in any way, shape, or form, though. However, embedded hardware/software development is my true forte.
And as an embedded coder, why the hell are you a "Certified MS SQL Servern Admin"? and honestly if you are as you say, change that username. That doesn't suit you.
Well, it's called "getting laid off and having to re-invent yourself." You'll understand some day...
When you are almost 60 years old and find yourself cast-out of your chosen career path (and, since this was 2009, there wasn't a whole lot of R&D happening in Indiana where I live, and my PAID FOR house is (talk about an "anchor"!!!)), and you hate the fact that what embedded development work there is, has devolved into chasing one 6 month Contract Job after another, ALL of them requiring moving from one end of the country to another (not exactly compatible with my age-group), you tend to opt for a less-than-optimal, but EASY path.
In my case, that meant a handshake gig at a mom-and-pop (literally!) software consultancy, writing Windows ERP software (yes, I hate it!). Along the way, they needed someone to acquire a SQL Server Admin certificate, and so I studied-up and passed the exam on the first try.
Even though I am a Mac guy through and through, just like most people that work designing software and hardware, I have had to resort to using Windows stuff for Development some (a lot of) times. And that has often meant doing at least lightweight "Admin" work. So, it isn't like I was unfamiliar with Administration in a Windows environment.
As for my Username, it reflects my "wish" for the world. So shove off!
P.S. I am typing this on a Mac, And I am an embedded programmer. So I don't think I have any problem with macs, but what you say just doesn't make sense.
Sorry, all true.
And I have done a lot of embedded work using first, Apple ][s, then later, Macs, whenever possible. I was even doing PCB designs on Toaster Macs back in 1984-85 for some stuff I developed.
Don't get me wrong; I have probably done the majority of my embedded software/hardware work using various Windows tools; but I have also done a few projects where I could do the entire thing on a Mac.
FORTUNATELY, that's getting a little easier now, with Microchip porting their toolchain to OS X, and other stuff.
But at this point, I haven't been doing embedded development since early 2009, when I was laid-off due to the recession (and the fact that my new boss (who just happened to be neighbors with the President of the Company I was working-for) didn't like the fact that I knew he was a poser, and basically made no bones about it).
No, because Obama told the Feds to back-off on that.
Your link is dated February 2014. My link is dated January 2015. The banks still haven't gotten the memo.
http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2015/1/5/states-find-you-cant-take-legal-marijuana-money-to-the-bank
Nice.
Yeah, I came here to say something similar, then I saw your post. Is there something (aside from the legal issues) that make marijuana a unique product?
Nope. It is the same as growing and selling any cash crop, as far as production, inventory, logistics and bookkeeping go.
Will the banks stop doing business with Microsoft for fear of being accused of money laundering for the drug lords?
No, because Obama told the Feds to back-off on that.
ask motorola and they'll replace the device and transfer your stuff for $175 out of warranty.
What does that have to do with Slamdung?
The sites use scripting within the SWF to obfuscate the URL of the FLV.
Doesn't seem to stop the better apps...
Probably for copy deterrence. Because major mobile browsers don't support the sort of extensions that desktop browsers such as Firefox support, it's easier for a user to run a stream recording extension on Firefox than in, say, Safari for iOS. So users of desktop browsers are required to do the streaming inside a piece of proprietary software that is opaque to browser extensions, namely Flash Player.
Yeah, because that stopped everyone from creating Applications that (I assume) identified as Browsers, that you could point to a URL serving up FLV and capture a copy of virtually any streamed Flash video, right?
Oh, wait...
As I said, PUNISHMENT for not bowing to the Demon of Flash...
Fuck 'em.
Stupid Logitech Harmony remote controls use Silverblight as the configuration UI.
Not on OS X, they don't.
Apple is notorious for this. They ditched floppy drives back when most hardware still shipped drivers on floppies. They switched to USB before most vendors were ready. Then they more or less abandoned optical drives when the world was awash in disks. Sometimes it seems like if someone like Apple doesn't come along and force the issue the industry will happily sit on old technology for well past its use by date.
Exactly!
But they all have one thing in common: no one tests in Safari.
That became the case once Apple terminated development of Safari for Windows. This meant it suddenly cost $500 to $600 to buy a second computer on which to run a copy of Safari in which to test your site. And then you have to pay $500 to $600 more four to six years later when Apple stops porting new versions of Safari to your version of OS X or new versions of macOS to your Mac. For example, a 2009 Mac mini running Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" can't be upgraded past OS X 10.11 "El Capitan".
News Flash: Use a Mac, and you only NEED one computer for web development, because you can run all the OSes you'd ever want on it.
News Flash #2: Get over it. Sometimes work requires the purchasing of tools. Ask any mechanic how much he gives to the Snap-On or Mac Tools man. It will make the cost of ANY computer seem like a trivial expense.
Maybe you could force it to use h.264 by uninstalling Flash?
Users with "mobile" User-agent values get the H.264 video. Users with "desktop" User-agent values get "Install Adobe Flash Player".
This has always annoyed me.
If I can go to a site with my iPad and it happily serves up content, then that means the web monkeys have already "solved" that site's Flash-dependency problem.
So why in HELL do they feel justified in PUNISHING me for not wanting Flash on my laptop? After all, even ADOBE wants people off of Flash, FFS!
Maybe you could force it to use h.264 by uninstalling Flash?
I only leave Flash installed on IE, and only fire up IE when I run across that rare website where there is no option than to enable Flash. Websites like that are exceedingly rare these days. It's usually just internal corporate crap that is only happy with IE anyway.
When I bought my MacBook Pro in 2013, it didn't come with Flash installed. I decided to see how long I could resist installing Flash.
I am still Flash-free on that machine. Once in awhile I run into a site that won't show content; but the internet is big, and I would rather give my visits to sites without lazy web developers.
I'm sure many people will whine about being underwhelmed by this year's WWDC and the lack of any new hardware announcements, etc. But IMO, there were some really solid improvements shown. The "universal clipboard" is a HUGE improvement, IMO.
How often are you switching between devices like this? In a meaningful and useful way? I don't want to accidentally copy/paste some code snipped on my iPhone. I can tell you the number of times I want to actually do this: Once per iPhone connected to my WiFi network at home. That's it. I don't like having to copy/paste my WiFi key. But guess what, I can just sync that already with notes. So I guess really my count goes down to 0. Now you want to talk about a meaningful way to transfer documents between my phone and my computer? That is a different story. Right now I have to fire up webdav or use email to copy a picture or a PDF from my computer to phone or vice versa. I'm far more likely to want to print something to PDF on my computer and haul it with me on my phone than I am going to want to copy and paste from my computer to my phone.
Oh and that's something you can easily do with Android but can't so conveniently do on an iPhone.
You apparently have never heard of GoodReader. Best $5 you will ever spend.
I have heard of GoodReader. But like I said it is not a native file manager. I obviously know that there are other ways to manage files with iOS or I wouldn't have mentioned webdav. And guess what? You could use that to copy/paste text between your phone and your computer via text files. So why does Apple need to add native copy/paste 'continuity' between machines? I mean that's basically what you've said in your last two replies to me.
End to end encryption. That's why.
They call you a fanboy because you clearly are one. Your name screams it.
Is that the best you've got? My frickin' USERNAME?
If you have to list your resume to some Internet random poster, you are a dumbass.
What's it to you? Jealous?
They are the last remaining 32 bit processors.
I was fixing a 32 bit only bug just today. So I'm pleased they are on the way out.
That makes sense.
Is that the same reason with the Macs that have been dropped from the Sierra list?
I think I'll wait a year or so to upgrade. Just to let them get all the kinks out of upgrading the entire file system on my Mac. And my Time Machine backup. And my external HD....
They haven't even finalized the specs yet. It isn't in the OS, nor will it be for at least a couple more years.
At least that choice is up to the user. I'm less worried about other devices on my own account than about how the data gets to those devices. Who can see my paste buffer in transit? Otherwise, I can see the convenience.
They mentioned the clipboard xfers are end-to-end encrypted.
Apple isn't stupid.