Reading the reviews, it seems like Apple only tested the adapter on their own displays. Sad. Maybe this should've been called the "Mini DisplayPort to Apple Cinema Display Adapter"...
Then maybe it's about the hardware. If I need to crack open the case and plug in a JTAG, it's bricked, since the end user is unlikely to own the tools necessary to fix it. If everything is fixable via software (even if it involves holding down some obscure keystroke and typing in some commands) it's not bricked.
Or better yet - the law already prevents the employee from taking company-specific confidential knowledge to the competitor. Your NDA does not cease to exist when you quit, there is no need for a NCA in the first place.
Exploitation doesn't last forever. My mother worked as a child laborer in an third-world Asian country in the past, and it is with that hard-earned pittance that she was able to go to school and get an education. As opposed to if the "workers' champions" of the world got their way, she'd have been stuck in that shack in the mountains somewhere in Asia even now.
Just look at China - they are seeing a surge in interest in workers' rights. Once income improves to a certain extent, people will start looking at quality of life - it is a universal reaction. Labor prices are rising rapidly in these production-oriented countries, and worker rights are tightening around corporations. It will take time for them to reach our level, but they will get there.
I actually really dislike the fact that.NET is tied so deeply into Visual Studio - it makes it very difficult to use the languages with any other tools. That being said, VS is one of the best IDEs out there, so my objection is sort of moot.
I do agree though -.NET and VS push some very cool and useful innovations despite already being a market dominator, and the quality is increasing substantially over time for both products. I just wish they could do the same with Windows.
I don't hate Microsoft either, but I do hate many of their products - unstable, slow, bloated, buggy as hell, and only popular due to their monopolizing of the market.
There are parts of MS I truly admire - the Xbox division for example, they epitomize capitalism at its best: you come in, out of nowhere, and topple (at least in one market) the dominating player by simply building a better product. This is the way it should work, and this is the way I wish the Windows and Office teams ran things.
I know you've been modded funny, but I think that's actually quite insightful. Left 4 Dead has proven that "die zombies die!" type of survival horror can be immensely popular - even more so than traditional scare-your-pants-off games like Silent Hill.
I know when I pick up a controller after a long day of work I don't want to be scared out of my mind - same reason why I have no great love for horror movies. If they were somewhat interesting in terms of story, sure, but like most horror movies, they are not - just a lot of pseudo-scientific Freudian psycho-babble by game designers who think they know horror. Yes, this applies to Silent Hill - they have perfected the art of scaring you, but not so much the art of writing a compelling storyline that isn't full of juvenile metaphors that's so thick you can cut it with a knife.
So given the choice between run-and-gun fun with my friends mowing down hordes of zombies, vs. playing a game with a dumb plot and too many "LOOK, WHATS THAT SKITTERING IN YOUR PERIPHERAL VISION?!" moments, I choose the former.
I wish I had mod points. Fallout 3 was such a joy and disappointment at the same time. It's a fun game, but it's marred by so many bugs, poor writing, and inconsistencies that it routinely jars you out of your immersion.
The art style is beautifully done - and then they throw you in identical subway tunnels for half the game. Even a slight amount of original exploration might break quests... They are like BioWare, a lot of great ideas, but they don't seem to have the technical chops to pull it off. At least Mass Effect was just slow, not broken.
Neither Left4Dead nor Dead Rising are survivor horror games - both are *parodies* of survival horror games. Neither L4D nor Dead Rising have any truly scary moments, and instead use the zombified landscape as merely a backdrop.
One more issue that we face is, as you said, the over-focus on the teacher instead of the student. Many of my peers in high school had *no curiosity* whatsoever, and IMHO this is bred by years of having a one-way relationship between the student and knowledge - i.e. knowledge is fed at them, and all they have to do is sit there and absorb. They don't know what it's like to go out and seek the knowledge they desire, and as a result simply aren't curious about how things work.
If teachers became a guiding role instead of the "educator", then I think we can inspire a lot more great things from our young people. Students should be encouraged to figure out *what* they need to know, and teachers be a guiding conduit to that information.
It's almost comical how little people desire to learn, despite the fact that we are without a doubt living in an age where learning is trivially easier than it has ever been before in history.
The problem is that 3rd graders don't want to know *how* to get there, but high school kids do, and we don't tell them that. We show them all of these cool jobs that they could do when they grow up, and then we don't tell them what they need to do to get there. Oops.
I got into code because I saw some really, really cool stuff being worked on at a lot of companies, and I had the resources to play with it at home. To get people into aerospace you need to do the same - inspire them to get into the field, and then give them the resources to play with the technology.
You want to encourage our youth to go into aerospace engineering by shutting down the aerospace companies? Good job.
That's about as insightful as saying that we should encourage people to buy more iPods by shutting down Apple.
NASA funding needs to continue - especially if America wants to retain its relevance in an age where even the Indians are launching shit into space. The Chinese, re-emerging Russians, Indians, and the EU are on the verge of overtaking the US in space technology, and this is unacceptable. If the US is to remain competitive in the coming decades it needs to keep up with the space race.
I got into programming because the work of other companies in my field inspired me, and made me go "man I wanna do that", not because of some dry government-run course on the joys of code. The best way to inspire kids to get into a field is to show them the results.
Your post is useless without any sort of corroborating evidence. If you want to claim he's a Bush lackey, provide some links. If you want to say that he directly contributed to a craptastic Orion/Ares project, then LINK ME to at least a blog by someone qualified to comment. As it is your post is pure speculation with not a lick of evidence.
I say this because throughout this entire thread I've seen posts about how Griffin is like Jesus on buttered toast, and others about how he's the devil incarnate. So which is it?
Precisely. The iPhone is *not* a productivity tool, it is a lifestyle device, and the apps that will show up on the phone will reflect the user base in the form of lifestyle applications that may be worth a few bucks each.
And for that very reason I don't think there will be much of a market for $20+ "productivity" tools.
And honestly, people are looking for "widgets" when it comes to iPhone apps - simple things that support their lifestyle like movie times, bus schedules, concert schedules, etc. That's not to say there aren't some very cool things being done in the iPhone sphere, but that developers looking to spend oodles upon oodles of money developing their apps and selling them for $25 a pop probably aren't going anywhere.
Well, contract developers *do* cost that much. I think the real headliner here is: "Useless People Who Must Contract Everything Out Find There's No Profit"... which is kind of a no-brainer. The people who can do their own design, code, and whatnot can operate in the iPhone space. If you're a PHB type who can't code, can't design, and just can't do anything except cook up wacky iPhone application ideas, then there's no room for you. Seems like there's nothing wrong here:)
Except the computer was not sold to you as a "kit computer". It was sold to you as one piece, with the guarantee that it runs OS X, Windows, or whatever the hell. The fact that you want to run Linux on it is your own responsibility, and although it would be totally awesome to get the company's support doing it, it's certainly not owed to you.
It's like buying a GM car, wanting to install a turbocharger, and then asking GM for the complete blueprints to their engine. Sure, it would be cool if GM did so, but they are certainly under no obligations to.
To their credit it wasn't *that* evil. Pipelines and clocks were turned off/down based on manufacturing defects, so it's not as if they placed some arbitrary restriction on your hardware for no good reason, although most would run quite well at boosted specs.
Note: I have not had a chance to play with this extension, but if the description from summary is right, it seems like they inserted a button that looks like any old Amazon button directly into the HTML of the page. This is questionable - as it is now potentially misrepresenting Amazon to the consumer. Impersonation, if you will.
I don't necessarily agree with Amazon - people should get to do whatever they want to their browser. But their "parody" excuse is a load of hogwash, and continual use of parody to defend obvious illegal acts simply dilutes and damages REAL parodies' ability to gain protection.
The fan does create heat - but it also is able to lower temperatures significantly inside its airstream, which when aligned correctly means faster heat transfer between the *really hot* parts of your machine and the outside world. It's not imaginary, it's *cue Nye-esque voice* science!
Not that simple. AFAIK Apple has unique hardware in their systems that identify them as "genuine Apple". Cloning these components is a violation of patent and/or copyright law (copying Apple's code), and reverse engineering them is a clear violation of the DMCA.
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Reading the reviews, it seems like Apple only tested the adapter on their own displays. Sad. Maybe this should've been called the "Mini DisplayPort to Apple Cinema Display Adapter"...
Then maybe it's about the hardware. If I need to crack open the case and plug in a JTAG, it's bricked, since the end user is unlikely to own the tools necessary to fix it. If everything is fixable via software (even if it involves holding down some obscure keystroke and typing in some commands) it's not bricked.
So, both companies agreed not to solicit each other's employees and now RIM wants out of the deal. Why should the be let out of the deal?
Because these people are no longer Motorola employees.
Or better yet - the law already prevents the employee from taking company-specific confidential knowledge to the competitor. Your NDA does not cease to exist when you quit, there is no need for a NCA in the first place.
Have you seen Motorola's finances lately? It doesn't matter if they have Albert Einstein himself on the payroll, a lot of people have to go.
Exploitation doesn't last forever. My mother worked as a child laborer in an third-world Asian country in the past, and it is with that hard-earned pittance that she was able to go to school and get an education. As opposed to if the "workers' champions" of the world got their way, she'd have been stuck in that shack in the mountains somewhere in Asia even now.
Just look at China - they are seeing a surge in interest in workers' rights. Once income improves to a certain extent, people will start looking at quality of life - it is a universal reaction. Labor prices are rising rapidly in these production-oriented countries, and worker rights are tightening around corporations. It will take time for them to reach our level, but they will get there.
I actually really dislike the fact that .NET is tied so deeply into Visual Studio - it makes it very difficult to use the languages with any other tools. That being said, VS is one of the best IDEs out there, so my objection is sort of moot.
I do agree though - .NET and VS push some very cool and useful innovations despite already being a market dominator, and the quality is increasing substantially over time for both products. I just wish they could do the same with Windows.
I don't hate Microsoft either, but I do hate many of their products - unstable, slow, bloated, buggy as hell, and only popular due to their monopolizing of the market.
There are parts of MS I truly admire - the Xbox division for example, they epitomize capitalism at its best: you come in, out of nowhere, and topple (at least in one market) the dominating player by simply building a better product. This is the way it should work, and this is the way I wish the Windows and Office teams ran things.
I know you've been modded funny, but I think that's actually quite insightful. Left 4 Dead has proven that "die zombies die!" type of survival horror can be immensely popular - even more so than traditional scare-your-pants-off games like Silent Hill.
I know when I pick up a controller after a long day of work I don't want to be scared out of my mind - same reason why I have no great love for horror movies. If they were somewhat interesting in terms of story, sure, but like most horror movies, they are not - just a lot of pseudo-scientific Freudian psycho-babble by game designers who think they know horror. Yes, this applies to Silent Hill - they have perfected the art of scaring you, but not so much the art of writing a compelling storyline that isn't full of juvenile metaphors that's so thick you can cut it with a knife.
So given the choice between run-and-gun fun with my friends mowing down hordes of zombies, vs. playing a game with a dumb plot and too many "LOOK, WHATS THAT SKITTERING IN YOUR PERIPHERAL VISION?!" moments, I choose the former.
I wish I had mod points. Fallout 3 was such a joy and disappointment at the same time. It's a fun game, but it's marred by so many bugs, poor writing, and inconsistencies that it routinely jars you out of your immersion.
The art style is beautifully done - and then they throw you in identical subway tunnels for half the game. Even a slight amount of original exploration might break quests... They are like BioWare, a lot of great ideas, but they don't seem to have the technical chops to pull it off. At least Mass Effect was just slow, not broken.
Neither Left4Dead nor Dead Rising are survivor horror games - both are *parodies* of survival horror games. Neither L4D nor Dead Rising have any truly scary moments, and instead use the zombified landscape as merely a backdrop.
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One more issue that we face is, as you said, the over-focus on the teacher instead of the student. Many of my peers in high school had *no curiosity* whatsoever, and IMHO this is bred by years of having a one-way relationship between the student and knowledge - i.e. knowledge is fed at them, and all they have to do is sit there and absorb. They don't know what it's like to go out and seek the knowledge they desire, and as a result simply aren't curious about how things work.
If teachers became a guiding role instead of the "educator", then I think we can inspire a lot more great things from our young people. Students should be encouraged to figure out *what* they need to know, and teachers be a guiding conduit to that information.
It's almost comical how little people desire to learn, despite the fact that we are without a doubt living in an age where learning is trivially easier than it has ever been before in history.
The problem is that 3rd graders don't want to know *how* to get there, but high school kids do, and we don't tell them that. We show them all of these cool jobs that they could do when they grow up, and then we don't tell them what they need to do to get there. Oops.
I got into code because I saw some really, really cool stuff being worked on at a lot of companies, and I had the resources to play with it at home. To get people into aerospace you need to do the same - inspire them to get into the field, and then give them the resources to play with the technology.
You want to encourage our youth to go into aerospace engineering by shutting down the aerospace companies? Good job.
That's about as insightful as saying that we should encourage people to buy more iPods by shutting down Apple.
NASA funding needs to continue - especially if America wants to retain its relevance in an age where even the Indians are launching shit into space. The Chinese, re-emerging Russians, Indians, and the EU are on the verge of overtaking the US in space technology, and this is unacceptable. If the US is to remain competitive in the coming decades it needs to keep up with the space race.
I got into programming because the work of other companies in my field inspired me, and made me go "man I wanna do that", not because of some dry government-run course on the joys of code. The best way to inspire kids to get into a field is to show them the results.
Your post is useless without any sort of corroborating evidence. If you want to claim he's a Bush lackey, provide some links. If you want to say that he directly contributed to a craptastic Orion/Ares project, then LINK ME to at least a blog by someone qualified to comment. As it is your post is pure speculation with not a lick of evidence.
I say this because throughout this entire thread I've seen posts about how Griffin is like Jesus on buttered toast, and others about how he's the devil incarnate. So which is it?
Precisely. The iPhone is *not* a productivity tool, it is a lifestyle device, and the apps that will show up on the phone will reflect the user base in the form of lifestyle applications that may be worth a few bucks each.
And for that very reason I don't think there will be much of a market for $20+ "productivity" tools.
And honestly, people are looking for "widgets" when it comes to iPhone apps - simple things that support their lifestyle like movie times, bus schedules, concert schedules, etc. That's not to say there aren't some very cool things being done in the iPhone sphere, but that developers looking to spend oodles upon oodles of money developing their apps and selling them for $25 a pop probably aren't going anywhere.
Well, contract developers *do* cost that much. I think the real headliner here is: "Useless People Who Must Contract Everything Out Find There's No Profit"... which is kind of a no-brainer. The people who can do their own design, code, and whatnot can operate in the iPhone space. If you're a PHB type who can't code, can't design, and just can't do anything except cook up wacky iPhone application ideas, then there's no room for you. Seems like there's nothing wrong here :)
The word was crossed from another population :)
Except the computer was not sold to you as a "kit computer". It was sold to you as one piece, with the guarantee that it runs OS X, Windows, or whatever the hell. The fact that you want to run Linux on it is your own responsibility, and although it would be totally awesome to get the company's support doing it, it's certainly not owed to you.
It's like buying a GM car, wanting to install a turbocharger, and then asking GM for the complete blueprints to their engine. Sure, it would be cool if GM did so, but they are certainly under no obligations to.
To their credit it wasn't *that* evil. Pipelines and clocks were turned off/down based on manufacturing defects, so it's not as if they placed some arbitrary restriction on your hardware for no good reason, although most would run quite well at boosted specs.
Note: I have not had a chance to play with this extension, but if the description from summary is right, it seems like they inserted a button that looks like any old Amazon button directly into the HTML of the page. This is questionable - as it is now potentially misrepresenting Amazon to the consumer. Impersonation, if you will.
I don't necessarily agree with Amazon - people should get to do whatever they want to their browser. But their "parody" excuse is a load of hogwash, and continual use of parody to defend obvious illegal acts simply dilutes and damages REAL parodies' ability to gain protection.
The fan does create heat - but it also is able to lower temperatures significantly inside its airstream, which when aligned correctly means faster heat transfer between the *really hot* parts of your machine and the outside world. It's not imaginary, it's *cue Nye-esque voice* science!
Yes they do.
Not that simple. AFAIK Apple has unique hardware in their systems that identify them as "genuine Apple". Cloning these components is a violation of patent and/or copyright law (copying Apple's code), and reverse engineering them is a clear violation of the DMCA.