So, i assume both sides would vote on the same. Does this also represent what the voters want? Or does this represent a narrow band of the ruling elite.
Hypocrisy is nothing new with her--Feinstein ALWAYS carves out exceptions for herself. Despite being one of the most anti-gun politicians you'll find in the US, she carries (or at least used to carry) a firearm for self defense.
Anti-GUN?!? No, she's just plain, ol' Anti-FREEDOM!
When she was on her "Anti-Gun" soapbox about a decade ago, she even wanted to ban Civil-War Reenactments as "Bloodsport"!!!
Same with her stance on gun control. While one of the biggest proponents, she has (or had... she may have given it up in shame when this was revealed) a CCW permit in California, which is near impossible for an average person to obtain
No, she hasn't given up that rubric, either.
I saw her and her butt-buddy, Chuck Schumer, on TV, calling for more gun-control a few days after the San Bernadino shooting.
...that this stuff sometimes isn't even stored anywhere.
So a conversation takes place between one or more people of suspect. Police want to know. Let's even pretend that they make a solid case to a judge and get a warrant. They serve Sony the warrant to find out what was said, and......they are told that there is nothing to give them. Voice conversations aren't generally saved from these video game systems.
Oh, that's no problem!
We'll just pass MORE laws to require Sony, Microsoft, et al. to log and retain every pimple-faced kid's sophmoric ramblings...
It's not. That's why you don't run consumer-grade Apple or Microsoft for mission-critical applications where "surprises" are not in the plan. And if you don't run it on the real stuff, why does your personal box need to be subjected to the same nonsense?
Or, like with Windows, you simply turn OFF the Auto Updates in OS X in App Store Preferences. In fact, the control is somewhat more fine-grained than in Windows.
Well the issue becomes blurred when you bear in mind that the whole basis of the iOS and it's origins with the iPod is selling sugar water to kids. Jobs went full Scully on that one. As the Mac slowly drifts toward iOS the truism continues to focus.
That "OS X is becoming iOS" meme is becoming quite tired. OS X has adopted a FEW (very few!) interface-isms from iOS, and those are mostly because, for example, people switching back and forth find it easier to do things like SCROLL using the same directional gesture regardless of Tablet or Trackpad.
But OS X is in NO danger of losing its familiar GUI. Things are adjusted slowly, rather than like what MS did with Windows 8, where they wholesale turned every-single GUI paradigm they had been using for DECADES on its ear, "just because".
I recall when the Macbook went Intel and everyone wanted one. We did evaluations at the time fro our next fleet replacement but Apple just wouldn't come to the party with any kind of enterprise support. So they lost our business, and I'm sure we weren't the only ones. That was about 7 or 8 years ago and from what I've seen they haven't changed their stance since. So they sat by and let MS eat their lunch.
One major advantage the Winbook has is that I can download the official videos of music from YouTube using apps like YouTube Downloader, Hyper, et al. W/ the iPad, I have to buy it from the Store. Yeah, Groove too is a store, but at least on Windows, I have apps that allow me to download stuff that I can transfer b/w memory cards. Something that I can't do on the iPad.
No, of COURSE you can't do that with an iPad. NO App like YouTube Download exists for the iPad, nosiree!
It does make me wonder if this will hurt Apple long term as there is a lot more people with Windows software they want to run than iOS software, perhaps this will spur Apple into making some sort of "MacTablet Pro" with a full OSX on it, I'm sure many here would just love to have a tablet running OSX.
I agree with you.
And despite Cook's protestations to the contrary, I would be flabbergasted if Apple is NOT working on an ARM port of OS X, or an OS X/iOS Hybrid, specifically to run on the iPad Pro. They just have too much experience in the platform-shift arena to not try it; plus OS X (nee NextStep) is easy to port.
So, mark my words: This will be announced at the next WWDC. I would suspect that Apple will go the "Universal App"/"Fat Binary" route, rather than ditch Intel completely. THAT would be a ridiculously dumbass move!
But remember, next WWDC: You heard it here first...
Yeah, because the Android or Apple phones all support Exchange security profiles...
I don't know about yours; but my iPhone 6 plus (and my iPhone 4s before it) both had no trouble hooking up to Office365 Mail (I think iOS even had a profile for it), including all my Folders, and I even get Exchange-based Calendar events.
And all of this without doing anything but entering the logon for my Office365 account.
I'm sure that there are some ultra-paranoid Exchange admins that can come up with security profiles that will choke most anything; but in my personal experience, I'd call the experience "seamless integration".
Yeah well I'm old too because I'd just assumed you meant pink eraser!
I remember the half & half erasers, with a pink end and a white end. The white eraser was the "ink" side, and was much more "gritty" than the pink (pencil) side...
All those devices that predated the iPad had nothing to do with the invention, and only the great Steve Jobs could have invented it. Yeah...reality distortion at work.
You're damned right I'm going to "double down" on that! The entire population of the planet had from 1915 to 2010 to come up with a successful, USEFUL embodiment of a Tablet Computer. And they didn't.
So, it was Apple's invention of the tablet in 2010 that caused the tablet revolution? You are an odd sort.
For many years, Android tablets existed before the iPad, it was to the point that I knew many people who wondered why Apple didn't release one yet when the announcement came that the iPad was being released. Acting like Apple invented the tablet, and they were a niche product before Apple is what requires distorting reality, but I shouldn't expect anything different from someone with a handle of macs4all than to be an Apple fanboi.
Apple DID invent the Tablet as we now know it. Ask Bill Gates.
And how is the premise of your argument aided by the childish ad hominem attack?
My macbook had a battery that blew up, a nonfunctional internal RAM slot, and the touchpad click doesn't work any longer. So I guess it depends who you ask.
The swollen battery and the touchpad non-click are related. The battery swells and presses-up against the bottom of the trackpad and keeps it from clicking. Replace the battery and all should be well again.
As for the nonfunctional RAM slot, did you buy this offa Craigslist or something? Try using a pencil eraser on the fingers of the RAM module?
How can Apple increase market share? If they had a removable battery, expandable memory, and allowed direct filesystem access, this geek may consider it.
Oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy!!!
ONE more sale! Stop the presses! Redesign the product! Sir Fluffernutter HAS SPOKEN!!!
How can Apple expand this market for iPads? Perhaps make them more friendly to be controllers for embedded products. Maybe make a model of iPad that would fundamentally not change its shape so third parties can use it for embedded tasks, be it kiosks, home automation, and other items.
Apple well knows how nice the iPad would be for embedded control.
If you remember "bendgate", there was an article that showed a behind-the-scenes look at Apple's destructive testing facility, where they torture their products to see what it takes to break them. At almost every testing station, they had an iPad mini embedded as the test-cell's controller.
Dude "Built-in 27.3-watt-hour rechargeable lithium-polymer battery" http://www.apple.com/au/ipad-a... [apple.com], the only way they will last five years is if you do not use them, the more you use them the quicker they will die.
You're so full of it it isn't even funny.
I have had an iPad 2 for at least 3 years. It gets used HEAVILY every single day. In fact, there probably isn't a day in which it gets LESS than 8 to 10 hours of use.
I have seen absolutely NO degradation in battery life, nor increase in charging time, during all that time, period. I am sure that it MIGHT have lost maybe, MAYBE 10% of its capacity; but honestly, I'd pretty much have to take a stopwatch to it to tell. On the weekends, when it gets used morning to night, it easily makes it all the way through a day/evening/night cycle, and still has about 25% left.
Honestly, it has exhibited the best "retention of battery-life" of any rechargeable device I have ever owned, hands-down.
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So, i assume both sides would vote on the same. Does this also represent what the voters want? Or does this represent a narrow band of the ruling elite.
You ask that like there's a difference.
Hypocrisy is nothing new with her--Feinstein ALWAYS carves out exceptions for herself. Despite being one of the most anti-gun politicians you'll find in the US, she carries (or at least used to carry) a firearm for self defense.
Anti-GUN?!? No, she's just plain, ol' Anti-FREEDOM!
When she was on her "Anti-Gun" soapbox about a decade ago, she even wanted to ban Civil-War Reenactments as "Bloodsport"!!!
I shit you not.
Same with her stance on gun control. While one of the biggest proponents, she has (or had... she may have given it up in shame when this was revealed) a CCW permit in California, which is near impossible for an average person to obtain
No, she hasn't given up that rubric, either.
I saw her and her butt-buddy, Chuck Schumer, on TV, calling for more gun-control a few days after the San Bernadino shooting.
...that this stuff sometimes isn't even stored anywhere.
So a conversation takes place between one or more people of suspect. Police want to know. Let's even pretend that they make a solid case to a judge and get a warrant. They serve Sony the warrant to find out what was said, and... ...they are told that there is nothing to give them. Voice conversations aren't generally saved from these video game systems.
Oh, that's no problem!
We'll just pass MORE laws to require Sony, Microsoft, et al. to log and retain every pimple-faced kid's sophmoric ramblings...
she doesnt mean well,. that woman has NEVER meant well
Exactly! She and Chuck Schumer are two rats in the same nest.
The Indiana Legistlature has already tried to legislate on mathematics.
You beat me to it!
I don't know why anyone would expect any different. Slashdotters in general don't tend to hold a very high opinion of Feinstein.
Proving that Slashdot hasn't lost ALL of its smart users (yet).
Netflix was crappy too when it first came out. Look at it now.
It's STILL crappy. Seriously, If Google was as lame a search tool as the Netflix front end on my TV, Alta Vista would still rule the internet.
It's not. That's why you don't run consumer-grade Apple or Microsoft for mission-critical applications where "surprises" are not in the plan. And if you don't run it on the real stuff, why does your personal box need to be subjected to the same nonsense?
Or, like with Windows, you simply turn OFF the Auto Updates in OS X in App Store Preferences. In fact, the control is somewhat more fine-grained than in Windows.
Well the issue becomes blurred when you bear in mind that the whole basis of the iOS and it's origins with the iPod is selling sugar water to kids. Jobs went full Scully on that one. As the Mac slowly drifts toward iOS the truism continues to focus.
That "OS X is becoming iOS" meme is becoming quite tired. OS X has adopted a FEW (very few!) interface-isms from iOS, and those are mostly because, for example, people switching back and forth find it easier to do things like SCROLL using the same directional gesture regardless of Tablet or Trackpad.
But OS X is in NO danger of losing its familiar GUI. Things are adjusted slowly, rather than like what MS did with Windows 8, where they wholesale turned every-single GUI paradigm they had been using for DECADES on its ear, "just because".
I recall when the Macbook went Intel and everyone wanted one. We did evaluations at the time fro our next fleet replacement but Apple just wouldn't come to the party with any kind of enterprise support. So they lost our business, and I'm sure we weren't the only ones. That was about 7 or 8 years ago and from what I've seen they haven't changed their stance since. So they sat by and let MS eat their lunch.
First, I wouldn't say that MS has been eating Apple's lunch...
Second, have you ever stopped to consider the number of people versus the number of "businesses"? I think Apple knows EXACTLY what it is doing.
I have a Winbook as well as an iPad.
One major advantage the Winbook has is that I can download the official videos of music from YouTube using apps like YouTube Downloader, Hyper, et al. W/ the iPad, I have to buy it from the Store. Yeah, Groove too is a store, but at least on Windows, I have apps that allow me to download stuff that I can transfer b/w memory cards. Something that I can't do on the iPad.
No, of COURSE you can't do that with an iPad. NO App like YouTube Download exists for the iPad, nosiree!
Oh, wait...
It does make me wonder if this will hurt Apple long term as there is a lot more people with Windows software they want to run than iOS software, perhaps this will spur Apple into making some sort of "MacTablet Pro" with a full OSX on it, I'm sure many here would just love to have a tablet running OSX.
I agree with you.
And despite Cook's protestations to the contrary, I would be flabbergasted if Apple is NOT working on an ARM port of OS X, or an OS X/iOS Hybrid, specifically to run on the iPad Pro. They just have too much experience in the platform-shift arena to not try it; plus OS X (nee NextStep) is easy to port.
So, mark my words: This will be announced at the next WWDC. I would suspect that Apple will go the "Universal App"/"Fat Binary" route, rather than ditch Intel completely. THAT would be a ridiculously dumbass move!
But remember, next WWDC: You heard it here first...
Yeah, because the Android or Apple phones all support Exchange security profiles...
I don't know about yours; but my iPhone 6 plus (and my iPhone 4s before it) both had no trouble hooking up to Office365 Mail (I think iOS even had a profile for it), including all my Folders, and I even get Exchange-based Calendar events.
And all of this without doing anything but entering the logon for my Office365 account.
I'm sure that there are some ultra-paranoid Exchange admins that can come up with security profiles that will choke most anything; but in my personal experience, I'd call the experience "seamless integration".
No, I got it from a reputable, business-orientated shop. The battery was replaced, click didn't come back.
Have you tried this?
Yeah well I'm old too because I'd just assumed you meant pink eraser!
I remember the half & half erasers, with a pink end and a white end. The white eraser was the "ink" side, and was much more "gritty" than the pink (pencil) side...
So, you are going to double down on that one. You feel that everything prior to the iPad did nothing to move the technology forward.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
All those devices that predated the iPad had nothing to do with the invention, and only the great Steve Jobs could have invented it. Yeah...reality distortion at work.
You're damned right I'm going to "double down" on that! The entire population of the planet had from 1915 to 2010 to come up with a successful, USEFUL embodiment of a Tablet Computer. And they didn't.
At least not until the iPad.
No, I got it from a reputable, business-orientated shop. The battery was replaced, click didn't come back. Pencil eraser-- good call.
Sometimes you have to mess-around a bit to get the click-thing to happen again.
Pencil eraser. I'm showing my age with that as a diagnostic technique; but it does sometimes work... PINK not WHITE eraser, though!
So, it was Apple's invention of the tablet in 2010 that caused the tablet revolution? You are an odd sort.
For many years, Android tablets existed before the iPad, it was to the point that I knew many people who wondered why Apple didn't release one yet when the announcement came that the iPad was being released. Acting like Apple invented the tablet, and they were a niche product before Apple is what requires distorting reality, but I shouldn't expect anything different from someone with a handle of macs4all than to be an Apple fanboi.
Apple DID invent the Tablet as we now know it. Ask Bill Gates.
And how is the premise of your argument aided by the childish ad hominem attack?
My macbook had a battery that blew up, a nonfunctional internal RAM slot, and the touchpad click doesn't work any longer. So I guess it depends who you ask.
The swollen battery and the touchpad non-click are related. The battery swells and presses-up against the bottom of the trackpad and keeps it from clicking. Replace the battery and all should be well again.
As for the nonfunctional RAM slot, did you buy this offa Craigslist or something? Try using a pencil eraser on the fingers of the RAM module?
How can Apple increase market share? If they had a removable battery, expandable memory, and allowed direct filesystem access, this geek may consider it.
Oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy!!!
ONE more sale! Stop the presses! Redesign the product! Sir Fluffernutter HAS SPOKEN!!!
How can Apple expand this market for iPads? Perhaps make them more friendly to be controllers for embedded products. Maybe make a model of iPad that would fundamentally not change its shape so third parties can use it for embedded tasks, be it kiosks, home automation, and other items.
Apple well knows how nice the iPad would be for embedded control.
If you remember "bendgate", there was an article that showed a behind-the-scenes look at Apple's destructive testing facility, where they torture their products to see what it takes to break them. At almost every testing station, they had an iPad mini embedded as the test-cell's controller.
there were many Android tablets before the iPad, discounting those takes quite some reality distortion.
No it doesn't. Calling them relevant is what really requires "reality distortion".
Dude "Built-in 27.3-watt-hour rechargeable lithium-polymer battery" http://www.apple.com/au/ipad-a... [apple.com], the only way they will last five years is if you do not use them, the more you use them the quicker they will die.
You're so full of it it isn't even funny.
I have had an iPad 2 for at least 3 years. It gets used HEAVILY every single day. In fact, there probably isn't a day in which it gets LESS than 8 to 10 hours of use.
I have seen absolutely NO degradation in battery life, nor increase in charging time, during all that time, period. I am sure that it MIGHT have lost maybe, MAYBE 10% of its capacity; but honestly, I'd pretty much have to take a stopwatch to it to tell. On the weekends, when it gets used morning to night, it easily makes it all the way through a day/evening/night cycle, and still has about 25% left.
Honestly, it has exhibited the best "retention of battery-life" of any rechargeable device I have ever owned, hands-down.
So, now we have some duelling Projections.
This report says that iPad Pro will sell more in the first 3 months than all of the Surface sales combined.
So now what?