With the crap way that the Obama administration has run things so far, I think the best thing that has happened to them is the Tea Party. When a group is so far to the right that Barry Goldwater says, "whoah", that's extreme. I wish there was a moderate to vote for...
Yep, that's exactly what to draw from this.
Monkey, you need a dose of reality. Just because you can do something, doesn't mean it's a good idea to do it. Lots of other companies (Sun, Microsoft, etc) have already found this out. If you don't pay attention to the bug that's reported, and you don't give any feedback, security guys will force your hand by creating an app that leverages the flaw. They've been doing it for years. This is Apples first time through the security line, because this is the first time they have had enough users to make it profitable to hackers. We're about to find out how virus proof Apple isn't.
Seriously, how could anyone look at these collection laws and NOT conclude they are shakedowns? I've never seen ANYONE try to justify these taxes on businesses. (Maybe I just don't read past the first 200 posts?)
You paid for the recording of the music. Now you're paying for the right to play it?
I would love to see a study of all the kids which were in "gifted" classes, and what academic achivements they made. I was in one throughout elementary and middle school, and to the best of my knowledge, I am the only one who actually used any of it.
Of the people I followed at all, one is a handy-man, two were drug dealers, and one just became an elementary school teacher after years of bartending, and one is a manager at K-Mart. My sample is completely ancedotal, though. I'd love to see a larger and more random study, but seeing as they've had gifted classes for at least 35 years, the data should be there.
Just in case anyone believes you, I took notice that you do not note any of your sources, and you were proven wrong on one.
You sound like either a PR man from Apple, or another fanboi.
Having written my first program on an AppleIIe, and purposly never touched one again, I can tell you from my experience that Apple has always been a crap company with amazing marketing. They have taken some mildly complex user interfaces (mp3 player, smartphone) and dumbed them down to consumer-electronics level, at the expense of flexibility and power. The IPad is a big IPhone that you use like a clipboard. It doesn't do much beyond surf the web and read/write e-mails, but it doesn't matter. That's all most consumers do. And Apple has name recognition, so consumers will buy it. When they say, "Post-PC era", they mean cheap, powerful, flexible machines are going the way of the dinosaur, hello trendy web appliance.
So let's be clear. Apple makes technology simple, at the cost of power, flexibility, and your wallet.
I really enjoy this question. You are not legally allowed to discriminate against anyone over 40, so she's part of a protected class. Of course, in acting, they can hire anyone for any reason. Now that the cat is out of the bag, thanks to the Streisand effect, everyone will (eventually) know her real age. Now, if she had any sense, she would make her identity very public, and use THAT to further her career.
Of course! People always listen to emotional pleas from famous people. They totally change their nature.
Come on. This is silly. Most people believe they are immortal, or at least don't care enough about their mortality to believe that THEY will be the one who gets in the accident just because they were "sending a quick text." I guarantee that the outage is the variable that reduced accidents. Because of the 80% who use their equipment responsibly? No, because of the 15% who don't. (5% just should never be behind the wheel to begin with.)
Really, admit that SOME people are going to use their equipment irresposibly, and they are generally the ones to cause accidents. I've seen people drive up on medians, turn the wrong way on a one-way street, and just generally drive like idiots, and 9 times out of 10 they have a cell phone in their hand. This is not a referendum to ban cell phones while driving, or anything as stupid and counter-productive as that. It IS stating that it only takes ONE person to cause MULTIPLE accidents, and that pretending that an emotional appeal for people to "drive better" is the actual cause of fewer accidents is insulting my intelligence.
Leopards don't change their spots. Texters gonna text.
It's good that a government wants to make decisions based on facts and data. It's stupid to ask the public for the data to make that decision, as it's going to be opinion. If you want data, FUND SOME STUDIES. Big companies will, of course, fund their own studies, and you will have several datasets to choose from. You will then be able to make a better decision about a policy which will affect a great number of people.
The way they are doing it now is based on faith and opinion. The dark ages.
Alright, one more concept to lay on you (and blow your mind!)
Your computer? All it does is add. 1's and 0's. That's it. It looks like it's subtracting, multiplying, dividing, moving, etc. because it's doing several computations in one clock cycle. But at the lowest level, all it does is add.
Hows that for simplicity/complexity/simplicity/complexity/simplicity?
"Of course, perhaps if Novell hadn't been spending so much time and money fighting Microsoft, it could have spent more time actually building products people want."
Apple's sudden focus on lawsuits doesn't look to good in this light...
Why did the PC beat the Mac, Amiga, and IBM PS2? All had better graphics, sound and performance.
Well, because IBM didn't buy exclusive rights to DOS, Microsoft was able to license compatible flavors to other manufacturers. Compitition pushed prices down, and the wide user base encouraged software developers to use the platform. People "shared" software, and everyone knew someone who had a stash lying around. Yes, pirates helped grow the market of pc's without question.
So, basically, the openness of the PC platform didn't just canibalize the personal computer market, it grew the market into sectors which had not been explored before. Heck, in 1988 I was installing a system which a tombstone company was using to cut stencils for inscriptions! 1988!
If only more people understood the concept of open, the world would be a better place.
I think I'm with you now. The complexity is all in how you look at it. Even plumbing seems simple at first glance. Now ask yourself how you get water to the top of a 50-story sky scraper?
It's all about understanding the domain. Everything is more complex that you see at first glance. And then it isn't. :P
I agree with you 99%, except I would argue that Steve Jobs didn't put the finishing touches on anything. He hired people who did it, insulted them, fired them, and then showed the press a big dog-and-pony show about how great it was. If his presence added anything to Apple, it was that he would kill any project that he wasn't living up to his extreme expectations.
I've been disgusted by Mr. Jobs for decades. I always hoped he'd see the error of his ways. Now he never will.
He was nowhere near what the press has built him up to be. He really was less of a man than most, and Ritchie is certainly more deserving of praise.
Are you serious? WTF does "Think about it too much" mean? Shall we look at the above "Car" analogy, and see that in an internal combustion engine, we are dealing with:
1: A fuel system, with a specially-formulated chemical cocktail which stays inert in the tank, but explodes when mixed properly with air and pressurized(diesel) or pressurized and ignited(gasoline)
2: A carburator, which mixes the fuel with the proper amount of air to support combustion, depending on ambient temperature and current engine RPM's or throttle setting
3: The engine block, consisting of pistons which are blown out when the fuel/air mixture is properly pressurized and/or ignited, intake valves which allow the fuel/air mixture into the piston cylinder, outlet valves which allow the spent fuel out of of the piston cylinder, rings which seal the piston in the cylinder...
This is just a small section of a simplified engine, which you modularized above to "engine". Hybrid gets much more complex, as does fuel injection, rotary engines, etc. Plus the fact that you claim that there are "infinite ways" tells me you are talking out of your rectum. You can't open your computer case and trace your circutry with a probe? I really just think you are just ignorant of the basics. Do some microprocessor Instructables. Learn to crawl before trying to run.
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I signed this petition last week.
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Re: Re: False Blame
Monkey, you need a dose of reality. Just because you can do something, doesn't mean it's a good idea to do it. Lots of other companies (Sun, Microsoft, etc) have already found this out. If you don't pay attention to the bug that's reported, and you don't give any feedback, security guys will force your hand by creating an app that leverages the flaw. They've been doing it for years. This is Apples first time through the security line, because this is the first time they have had enough users to make it profitable to hackers. We're about to find out how virus proof Apple isn't.
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Dude, when jousting with trolls, use bass bait, not catfish.
Here, TicTac(tm).
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Re: Re: @AC "http://icanouttrollyou/" -- We humans concede the fact.
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Re: Re: Bright side
You'll get NPR.
Unhindered capitalism, just like pure democracy, FTW!
(Pure democracy: a sheep and two wolves voting on what's for lunch)
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You paid for the recording of the music. Now you're paying for the right to play it?
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What?
Understand it? What makes you think he's even READ it?
These guys just push whatever the industry lobbyists hand them...
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Telling Kids their smart...
Of the people I followed at all, one is a handy-man, two were drug dealers, and one just became an elementary school teacher after years of bartending, and one is a manager at K-Mart. My sample is completely ancedotal, though. I'd love to see a larger and more random study, but seeing as they've had gifted classes for at least 35 years, the data should be there.
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You sound like either a PR man from Apple, or another fanboi.
Having written my first program on an AppleIIe, and purposly never touched one again, I can tell you from my experience that Apple has always been a crap company with amazing marketing. They have taken some mildly complex user interfaces (mp3 player, smartphone) and dumbed them down to consumer-electronics level, at the expense of flexibility and power. The IPad is a big IPhone that you use like a clipboard. It doesn't do much beyond surf the web and read/write e-mails, but it doesn't matter. That's all most consumers do. And Apple has name recognition, so consumers will buy it. When they say, "Post-PC era", they mean cheap, powerful, flexible machines are going the way of the dinosaur, hello trendy web appliance.
So let's be clear. Apple makes technology simple, at the cost of power, flexibility, and your wallet.
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Maybe, after many years of social trauma, one of the protesters said something about getting a sandwich for lunch, and Tony just snapped.
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This is interesting...
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Come on. This is silly. Most people believe they are immortal, or at least don't care enough about their mortality to believe that THEY will be the one who gets in the accident just because they were "sending a quick text." I guarantee that the outage is the variable that reduced accidents. Because of the 80% who use their equipment responsibly? No, because of the 15% who don't. (5% just should never be behind the wheel to begin with.)
Really, admit that SOME people are going to use their equipment irresposibly, and they are generally the ones to cause accidents. I've seen people drive up on medians, turn the wrong way on a one-way street, and just generally drive like idiots, and 9 times out of 10 they have a cell phone in their hand. This is not a referendum to ban cell phones while driving, or anything as stupid and counter-productive as that. It IS stating that it only takes ONE person to cause MULTIPLE accidents, and that pretending that an emotional appeal for people to "drive better" is the actual cause of fewer accidents is insulting my intelligence.
Leopards don't change their spots. Texters gonna text.
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Data Driven
The way they are doing it now is based on faith and opinion. The dark ages.
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Your computer? All it does is add. 1's and 0's. That's it. It looks like it's subtracting, multiplying, dividing, moving, etc. because it's doing several computations in one clock cycle. But at the lowest level, all it does is add.
Hows that for simplicity/complexity/simplicity/complexity/simplicity?
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Apple?
Apple's sudden focus on lawsuits doesn't look to good in this light...
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Well, because IBM didn't buy exclusive rights to DOS, Microsoft was able to license compatible flavors to other manufacturers. Compitition pushed prices down, and the wide user base encouraged software developers to use the platform. People "shared" software, and everyone knew someone who had a stash lying around. Yes, pirates helped grow the market of pc's without question.
So, basically, the openness of the PC platform didn't just canibalize the personal computer market, it grew the market into sectors which had not been explored before. Heck, in 1988 I was installing a system which a tombstone company was using to cut stencils for inscriptions! 1988!
If only more people understood the concept of open, the world would be a better place.
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It's all about understanding the domain. Everything is more complex that you see at first glance. And then it isn't. :P
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I've been disgusted by Mr. Jobs for decades. I always hoped he'd see the error of his ways. Now he never will.
He was nowhere near what the press has built him up to be. He really was less of a man than most, and Ritchie is certainly more deserving of praise.
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Re: Re: Not this
1: A fuel system, with a specially-formulated chemical cocktail which stays inert in the tank, but explodes when mixed properly with air and pressurized(diesel) or pressurized and ignited(gasoline)
2: A carburator, which mixes the fuel with the proper amount of air to support combustion, depending on ambient temperature and current engine RPM's or throttle setting
3: The engine block, consisting of pistons which are blown out when the fuel/air mixture is properly pressurized and/or ignited, intake valves which allow the fuel/air mixture into the piston cylinder, outlet valves which allow the spent fuel out of of the piston cylinder, rings which seal the piston in the cylinder...
This is just a small section of a simplified engine, which you modularized above to "engine". Hybrid gets much more complex, as does fuel injection, rotary engines, etc. Plus the fact that you claim that there are "infinite ways" tells me you are talking out of your rectum. You can't open your computer case and trace your circutry with a probe? I really just think you are just ignorant of the basics. Do some microprocessor Instructables. Learn to crawl before trying to run.
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