Uncle Bernie makes me barf, at many levels. His, and AT&T's, is exactly the kinda attitude that gets people all romantic about socialism and nasty capitalists eating lil Irish babies. Underpay your contractors in a dangerous job => expect accidents. Simple as that. I wouldn't want live with that.
In fact, I really hope he's just pulling our chain and trolling. Hard to say - he sounds like such a twat.
But your generalization is pretty childish nonetheless. I won't change my phone because of this, though this would definitely weigh against me continuing or taking up any relationship with AT&T, were I in the US.
Like someone else said those towers aren't just for one piece of kit.
Have no fear, despite your idiocy, I would spill my beer on Uncle Bernie's head before yours. Sorry, on his hydrophobic iPhone. After spitting a wad of chewing tobacco cud in it.
>It's nothing to do with headphones. Even a cheap pair of 'phones is quite a high-fidelity reproduction device
Hah. Way to show that you don't know what you are talking about. Unless "cheap" means $200+ of course, to go with a "budget" $2000 amp.
I've always preferred splurging on the music itself, rather than droning about equipment. Or sampling/compression artefacts (http://blog.szynalski.com/2009/07/05/blind-testing-mp3-compression/). Basically I don't pretend my ears are special.
But get Sennheiser 555s or equiv ($250 reg, $75 sale when I got mine). Way, way better. I even use them for my work phone conferences now, much better at picking out people far from microphones.
No way cheap (< 80-100$ list) headphones are remotely comparable - I picked up lotsa nuances in songs I had never heard. Don't get me started on Apple-issue whites either. Headphones are the first kit to consider upgrading.
I'll take a stab at this. The subjective pain of paying a given amount of tax varies highly depending on what the government does with it and what your fellow citizens are also paying.
I've paid taxes in France and in Canada. In one case, you have a government that hasn't managed to balance a budget in 30 yrs, a huge public sector payroll and a pension system that a first semester actuarial student would tell you will collapse in a few decades. Along with a population that believes that the government $ can fix anything.
In the other you have a country which radically reduced its spending in the mid 90s when it became clear it wasn't sustainable. Lots of pain but people generally take pride on running a balanced budget (the last few years have been an exception). When I pay taxes, I know that government spending is highly scrutinized.
Both France and Canada used my tax money to deliver on matters that I care about: public education and health. Both countries' general citizenry agree to pay fairly high taxes and don't pretend that only "the rich" should pay taxes.
The US on the other hand manages to run a huge deficit, deliver laughably overpriced healthcare in a highly unequal manner and is acknowledged to have an under-performing public education system. In a country where the median income is about 65K$, Pres. Obama "bravely" supports upping the taxes for those making >250K$ while Republicans state that no one should pay more taxes. So, I am basically hearing that someone making >90K$ cannot possibly give up any moneys to balance the budget. Only the very rich should pay, everyone assumes, but everyone will consume services and claim they are hard up. I find that obscene, even though I also find CEO level pay obscene. A Republican senator, the party of small government, sponsors a 250M$ bridge to nowhere in Alaska and almost gets away with it. US military spending outstrips what, the next 20 countries in the globe put together? The Senate and House dicker endlessly about BS without fixing the budget. Even while voters can't be bothered to pay taxes they are almost unique in the world in claiming taxes from their expats.
I don't know if Saverin is trying to dodge taxes or not. But were I in his shoes, I would feel little inclination to pouring money into such a dysfunctional system. I would pay what I owed and leave asap. Give me the impression that my money is being used wisely, including to help people less well off than me, and I will pay taxes without complaining much.
The law is the law, you say? Yes, but people can vote with their feet. Saverin is doing so.
Yeah, those merkins sure like to be taxed. Uh, sorry, tax others.
Seriously, as much as aggregate US taxation levels are far below what their lavish government spending would require, it is astonishing how greedy their citizens can be in taxing others who have dared leave the mothership.
Geeks like us aside, the simple fact is that Sony had a long-standing policy to make things as inconvenient and pricey as possible for its customers. That means non-standard hardware, strange file formats, convoluted EULAs and DRM-crippleware. To be honest, it might be their engineers with not-invented-here syndrome, not just the marketing suits. Also, absorbing piracy-obsessed media companies is hereby shown to be risky for hardware folks.
Sony seems to be wisening up lately, but I don't know if it will be in time for them to move back up from also-ran. The only hardware I have from them is a PS3, which I am happy enough with (50+ page mandatory OS-update EULAs aside). But they are definitely at the tail end of my prospective manufacturer list for new purchases.
I was gonna ask precisely that. Isn't there something on Linux for that? I mean, that would be precisely where open source should shine, replacing expensive crappy _critical_ software.
On the other hand, I looked for a long time for an open source OCR and only found Tesseract (which is dated but still beats my crap $90 windows OCR hands down).
Shame that some types of deserving program categories never excite folks as much as others.
To the OP, txs for sharing. It is hard to understand the perspective without knowing how real life people are affected.
Same thing here in Canada, also F35(A). Cost overruns, unclear procurement, politics.
The second lot to pay for this fiasco, 'sides the taxpayers, will be the soldiers, either when their F35s suck. Or, more likely, other soldiers, when the cheapo kit they get after the DoD kitty is left empty lets them down.
I also defy anyone to predict how well unmanned fighter craft will perform in the 2030+ timeframe, when those flying boondoggles are entering early middle age (or, possibly, even service). I know that's what I would considering, were I a PLA strategic planner.
Amen to that. The core OS, derived from BSD family, is probably pretty strong wrt to security. Much stronger than Windows, IMHO.
However... M$ has had a decade of justified user outrage about their crap security and has, to an extent, learned to take security seriously enough to mitigate the really sucky Windows underpinnings.
Fanbois who instinctively defend Apple miss the point that Apple's record is pretty lax when it comes to security, aside from what comes baked-in from BSD and Sudo. We had the LDAP goof a while back, the Flashback Trojans (2 acquaintances caught out), the MacDefender ("no don't support our infected users that would make it seem like we are not secure").
Now this.
Apple will need to get its s**t together or non-fanbois will balk at paying extra $ for still-insecure computers. They need to recognize that pricey computers => juicy targets for malware writers, esp. when the prevailing attitude seems to be "antivirus? what antivirus, I am on a Mac". They need to stand by their users' security, period. Over convenience, when needed.
One of my primary reasons for being on a Mac is not trusting Windows to store any sensitive info. F*** this up enough and I'll move out again.
considering the how polarized the readership here is about Macs, maybe this kid lurks amongst our very forums. I shudder at the thought and indeed feel my bladder loosening...
Aside from that this article was most entertaining on a dreary Monday morning. Though I confess "Badum tish" was too much for my English-as-a-second-language understanding.
I'll upvote you, but I think you are missing our (coders,admins) point somewhat.
I don't undervalue your skillset. HTML, CSS is easy to write. But quite hard to get just right. I know, I've dabbled in it. Good designers are valuable and arguably a bad designer will produce worse results than a bad coder, whose handicraft may work, but just slowly or in an error-prone fashion.
But, being a designer in HTML is a different skillset from being a developer altogether. When someone says that they want to promote programming and shows off his one-day, shake 'n bake, "programming class in HTML" to prove his point then that really leads me to wonder who decided that particular person was qualified to be an expert on technology.
Flip it around - "we need to promote web design skills so I've spent a day learning Visual Basic". Does that sound clever to you?
Re: Games should stay on Windows where DRM is already entrenched.
Ah, I could almost think your post was in jest. You know, as in showing how much Linux users appreciate choice and making a sarcastic post.
But, no, on balance I think you are just a troll.
Luckily, most of the other Penguin icons are appreciative.
In my mind, choice means that if you don't want DRM on your Linux boxen, you don't install DRM stuff. That's you and that is an entirely valid position to have.
And if someone else likes Linux _and_ games and want to stop subsidizing M$ by having to buy Windows to run games they would pay for anyway, then they buy games from vendors that support Linux. If they want to. Which does not infringe on your principles, because, like... those are not your boxen.
To me, that is choice.
But not in your version of free will, apparently. Where your principles are so valuable that they need to be imposed onto others.
(Disclaimer: if Tux Racer sets your loins afire, I am obviously talking out of my nethers from your viewpoint).
On one hand having Steam in the picture would allow porting of real, big-money, games. It would solve the distribution problem (no one carried Linux games in the early 2000s, when there was, briefly, an interest in Linux as a gaming platform).
It would solve piracy problems - the tight leash Steam puts on a game would probably not be crackable by most and a well-designed system would allow for occasional cracks and disabling some functionality games that are running on exploits. Then the usual patch-crack cycles would happen, but many people would just... pay.
Which is... good. If you are deluded enough to believe that a game studio who spent millions of dollars developing a game may deserve payment from its players. I am that kind of delusional person.
On the other hand, I have a licensed Shogun 2 running under Bootcamp on my Mac. After working for 3 months, Steam stopped working. The troubleshooting instructions for lost Steam connectivity looks like they were written up by a dyslexic C++ coder after a Red Bull binge on his personal blog.
"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
Nothing remotely user-friendly to allow me to use my $60 game.
And... Steam _always_ wants a call home. Even on a single-user game. How about allowing for non-connected solo play? Steam complaints are usually front and center of many game reviews.
>They are diametrically opposite in terms of viewpoint
Not really. They are orthogonal. I am agnostic, but see no reason why you couldn't have a competent scientist that believed in God*.
This whole science vs. God thing is quite dreary, quite a new development post-Enlightenment and only a result of entirely too many merkins not being educated enough to know anything about well... anything. So that the slightest whiff of intellect has them swooning in righteous anger.
*while choosing to ignore some or all of the weird stuff like creationism, floods, virgin births, etc...
Totally agree. This sounds a LOT more interesting than ISS, base on the Moon or flying people to Mars. Or any of the crud that the meat-in-space parts of NASA has to dream up to justify its existence.
(I have much more respect for the automated-only parts of NASA . Like survey probes, sats and telescopes).
Sure, it is quite likely to fail, and I wouldn't _invest_ in it. Donate? Maybe. But these guys are likely smart enough to know that and have enough cash at hand to take a wild stab at getting us out of our current space rut. And it won't be run by politicians behooved to aerospace lobbyists.
Hats off, gentlemen. Even if it never makes it off the ground.
Doh. I do, and I do know better than to entrust them with my credit card info.
Which is ultimately what you are doing when you give iTunes password. If you don't give it to them, problem solved. Rocket science?
I don't disagree that the freemium aspect is a scam of sorts and maybe Apple should ban those apps.
But ultimately you have to enter a password every time you make a purchase.
What do you propose the vendor do? Have you enter a password and... then what exactly? Just because he can't deal with his kids doesn't mean I want to be penalized with additional crap myself.
One thing they could do would be to NOT require the password on free apps/free addons. That way there would be no reason to give your kid any iTunes credentials whatsoever.
Anyways, I suspect Amazon one-click ebook purchases have the same risk as well. Worse, really, because my browser logs me in directly and there is no confirmation. Then again, I don't let my kids browse on my login.
Actually, with their winters seeming to come long and far apart ("you've never seen a winter, young grasshopper"), it could very well be that a Westorosi year is 8 or 10 of our years. So Daenerys is like totally geriatric.
>A number of games on platforms such as Steam illustrate this point.
Yeah? Like when my Shogun 2, solo mode, stopped working because it couldna call home on Steam servers?
And like when I looked up the Steam "support" page related to my error message and it looked like a bored dev had slapped together a few paragraphs of "re-install, check Direct X, disable your firewall" hocus pocus and dead chicken administration rites.
Rather than a serious user-friendly troubleshooting guide explaining how I would get my $59 value from a game legally purchased, after the stupid anti-piracy network connectivity goes tits up.
>Page had a little moan about Facebook's refusal to let the Chocolate Factory gain access to the contact details of users on Mark Zuckerberg's siloed network.
And I am grateful for FB's stance on that.
Don't get me wrong. I don't necessarily think badly of Google by itself. I use gmail after all. And I am willing to put up with FB and disclose a limited amount of information because I find FB useful.
But I have enough problem worrying about FB's ever-changing privacy settings without worrying about what Google searches show of my FB data.
Re: However, the deniers will soon be along to point out ...
My dear Graham, are you seriously suggesting that changing the atmospheric concentration of a known greenhouse gas from 260-280 to 380 ppm, and counting, will NOT increase temperature?
I mean, that is the basic position of the global warming doubters, innit? Basic high school level science taught to us over decades about how atmospheres retain heat. Everybody went along with that theory. Only now are the implications problematic and have a political and economic dimension.
As far as your brilliant argument goes, how about a simpler one?
If you pick up a number of different temperature prediction studies done in the past, you are bound to find some that fit well. So, judging solely from the contents of this article, it is hard to determine the significance of this prediction. You'd have to know how many other models there were and what they had to say.
Honestly, I wouldn't mind if the whole global warming thingy was a hoax. But I am not going to judge science based on my political outlook or personal consumption preferences. Right now, the main thing that gives me pause with the general scientific consensus is that there is a lot of money on the table for scientists to research global warming, which could tempt fudging.
If you, and a minority of scientists, are right, we have public policy being subverted, freewill limited and economic growth stifled. All for naught.
If you are wrong, we could have major ecological shifts in a much shorter time period than organisms will be likely be able to adapt to. Possibly famine and even positive feedback loops.
It's a question of value at risk and probabilities - you don't make a compelling case for me, but each voter has to make up her own mind. I think we are getting there, slowly.
Odd, I wrote SQL for years on PeopleSoft, and DB2 was a supported platform. I am well aware of various other DB2 limitations of old, such as self-referential updates not being allowed. DB2 was always the most idiosyncratic of the lot.
But your case? Never. Sure you can't set it somehow at the session level? Google is yer friend....
What about the next time you sign an EULA? Do you want to read the entire War & Peace length of it just to make sure they don't do something retarded with your rights? Or at least, no more retarded than the average EULA?
EULAs and T&C exist, sure. But I don't want common-sense expectations of privacy to go out the door as well.
If you list your date of birth and exact address on FB, tough for you if someone uses that to hack your ID.
But expecting to be contacted by FB before you're prominently featured in a promotional campaign? Is that too much to ask???
IMHO: send her a case of champagne, pay off her lawyer and don't do it again. Another privacy lesson learned for FB.
>I always thought that consensus was the bane of science, like in evolution, AGW etc.
So are you saying that the current consensus about evolution theory being quite likely to be correct is a problem for science? What alternative theories have shown scientific basis for their acceptance again?
Regardless of your technical leanings, government savings on that order due to reduced licensing fees and hardware costs are excellent news.
Yes, it would be nice to know the relative meaning of an annual Euro 4M saving, but still, a big number in absolute terms regardless of the percentage of the budget it represents. Even if I am sure there must be some interesting details to niggle about that we are not privy to.
Oh, please. Like they could not figure it out elsewhere.
Especially if you are a gmail user - the most frequent # in a user's outbox is likely her own, neh?
Risk-wise, I am much more worried about some individual jerk taking over my account somehow and holding my gmail hostage than I am about Google's extra insight into my #.
(btw, I had the displeasure to drive a convertible Mustang in 2007 on a beautiful winding mountain road. Eeek, that is one sluggish, unresponsive and extremely gas guzzling motorized wheelbarrow. You can see why MS thought it was a good branding fit)
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At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."
In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five per cent of the roads.
6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light.
7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.
8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your cr would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna
9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.
>Which tablet maker sold 7.6 million units during the last quarter? Dream on Fandroid
Gotta, say, this post, and the lot preceding it, reaches a new high in the fanboi/android sux wars. Shining rhetoric, brilliant wit, cutting edge insights & well-argued opinions.
My daddy is better than your daddy! Nah, nah, nah, nah!
Unfortunately, verrry slowly, the rest of the posts start having interesting things to say.
>Fanbois don't like facts (and the fact that you have been downvoted is evidence of this).
Craigness only got 1/25 downvote. You are up to 6/9.
Craigness uses facts, and interesting ones at that. The same can't be said of your oh so useful contribution ;-)
On a different level, I wonder if Appcelarator doesn't have a vested interest in playing up Android fragmentation, given their offerings. And I think those that have iPhone 3x might be leery in upgrading to later OS versions - I recall it being somewhat of a stinker when 4.0 came out. Now, I have no idea how big that user base is - might be somewhat bigger than expected with 3 yr contracts ;-)
>Also, if the water level is that high, how do they breathe? (The air pressure above 20,000 ft is insufficient to survive)
Hmmm, let's do a bit of thinking here. The air pressure at 20000 ft is low, because the air's settled down in the 20000 feet below that. You know, pressure gradients and the like.
Primary nomination: Southland Tales or Waking Life.
As far as Battlefield Earth goes - having read the book, I must say the movie did not truly do the book justice. The movie is pretty awful, sure. But the book is so much worse! All 900+ pages of it.
You gotta wonder about Scientologists - do they know how truly horrible Hubbard was as a writer??? I've read lots of SF and, yeah, it's a genre with its fair share of duds. But Hubbard is in a category all by himself.
p.s. (wiki for B.E.): "current US presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney pointed to the book as his favorite novel."
>I'll be interested in signing up for this, let me dump my $50+/mth "traditional" bank merchant system
And you'll be dumped by people like me if it doesn't work with Visa. Or I might just avoid you on general principle for using PayPal.
Recently had another experience with PayPal, that I loathe. My vendor (etsy.com-based) meant to refund me shipping but instead refunded me the whole transaction on a Visa-through-Paypal payment.
I was fine with re-paying, but after I got my refund. Don't wanna pay twice.
Ordinarily, Visa should have seen a refund quickly. Uh, no. Not with Paypal. First Paypal refunds itself. Quickly, I assume. Then eventually, after some biz days, it supposedly turns around and tells Visa. Then it says that the refund is waiting for Visa. "Not our fault, guv. Visa's. Could take a month. Not our fault". Plus, I am on the line debating this with PayPal who I have no formal relationship with, unlike my bank's Visa.
Bottom line: 2 1/2 weeks from refund to transaction post in my Visa account. Can you guess whose bank account was collecting interest?
Mayhap no one wants to tell the emperor he has no clothes
I agree that a calculated gamble is one possible scenario. Certainly more plausible than "we really can't hear you when you say it sucks".
But it could just be that the average exec at MS would be putting his career in jeopardy by contradicting the decisions made by wiser heads higher up.
Wiser folks like Steve Ballmer and Steve Sinofsky, for example.
I mean, I rarely hear people sing the praise of the ribbon. And it wouldn't take much to have ribbons AND menus in Office for example. But, despite the annoyance of many users (at least above the age of 35), ribbons are getting more and more pervasive. And Sinofsky is Daddy Ribbon apparently.
So, if the big chiefs are singing Metro, what are the lil Indians working in UI design gonna say?
"Yes, Steve."
If only Ubuntu wasn't stuck in Gnome 3 and Unity, and instead aimed for stability and user friendliness, like the old Ubuntu :-(
A Windows-themed Linux distro aiming at Joe Average may still have a wider window of opportunity in the coming years. Porcos potest fugere and I would like that. Then again, Apple may just reap the benefits.
BTW, I rather liked the "everything on command line" article about Win 8 Server. Even if I don't like Powershell much. That may be their way of this s***hole.
>Only Apple does not have an equivalent to Hadrian's wall and the barbarians are gathering.
Errr... you're aware that Hadrian's wall was only relevant in the context of the ass-end of the boonies of the Roman empire, right? At the height of Roman power.
The barbarians you are thinking of came several hundred years later, about a thousand miles away and by that time the Romans were kinda gone anyway from Britain anyway and couldna hae cared less about Scotland.
But don't let that get in the way of your entertaining us ;-)
Not because it will off anytime soon, unfortunately. Ditto Cobol.
Like Cobol was, Java is now the language of choice for the corporate masses.
Like Cobol, it has tons of features intended to promote a certain, often verbose, approach to programming because the designers thought it was a good idea.
Like Cobol, the afficionadoes believe that the rest of the programming languages are for sissies. Heck, any self-respecting Java book has to teach us about classes and objects, all over again.
Like Cobol, this is where there is a lot of employment - and a lot of salary competition as well.
Unlike Cobol, books on the language and all of its pet frameworks and libraries of the month fill bookshelf after bookshelf with weighty tomes of drudgery.
Like Cobol, one must admit, from afar hopefully, that it is quite successful in its niche.
Home address (also on FB profile) : 101 Fleece Mew Street, SuckerTown, USA
It is absolutely shameful that interested well-wishers cannot precisely determine how far away Mr. Clever is from his home address at any point in time and instead have to rely on sloppy, error-prone, inadequately entered information.
>Q. What's the moral or ethical difference between me controlling the weapon via my fingers, and bypassing my fingers and controlling it directly from neural impulses.
A: Can't get as much funding to pontificate about finger control.
Re: Re: Re: Correction - firefox on MS's rubbish OS's
And I wonder whether those Win 7 users are protected if they, like many genius Win 7 reviewers typically recommend, went out of their way to disable Windows UAC (pseudo-Sudo) prompting?
Seriously, even when Microsoft does something right, some users who should know better (otherwise why be reviewing Win 7 Pro???) manage to aim solidly at their foot.
All good for the Penguins and Fanbois in this instance, but let's face it: the bad guys are getting smarter.
>What Matt seems to have missed is that Apple like some of the other premium brands doesn't give a shit for market share never has done never will do - at least not at the expense of price.
Humm, this is like the other poster about Armani suits. Premium pricing strategies make a lot of sense in many cases. Including Apple's. But unlike suits and rolexes, phones and tablets are evolving rapidly. And to evolve your tech and make it shiny, you need sufficient R&D funds. You can't do that if you ship too few handsets, unlike say Hermes scarves which benefit from scarcity (and look silly/pretentious, IMHO).
I suspect you are both right - Apple will stick to its upmarket image branding and will make lots of money. But it will also need to watch the volume in order not to be out-innovated by the likes of Samsung.
(for all intents and purposes a noob here - security is only tangentially in my interests)
If you have P2P control, could the white hats not set up counter measures to issue instructions to cease & desist? Or some other kinda neutralization/sabotage/owner identification strategy?
I mean, if all of a sudden those trojan's peers can issue commands, then how do they know to trust those peers? I assume signatures and encryption are used to authenticate, but still, there must be some opportunity here, until the next improved version.
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Re: Steve Roper @Uncle Bernie
Hey f**k u 2 Steve.
Uncle Bernie makes me barf, at many levels. His, and AT&T's, is exactly the kinda attitude that gets people all romantic about socialism and nasty capitalists eating lil Irish babies. Underpay your contractors in a dangerous job => expect accidents. Simple as that. I wouldn't want live with that.
In fact, I really hope he's just pulling our chain and trolling. Hard to say - he sounds like such a twat.
But your generalization is pretty childish nonetheless. I won't change my phone because of this, though this would definitely weigh against me continuing or taking up any relationship with AT&T, were I in the US.
Like someone else said those towers aren't just for one piece of kit.
Have no fear, despite your idiocy, I would spill my beer on Uncle Bernie's head before yours. Sorry, on his hydrophobic iPhone. After spitting a wad of chewing tobacco cud in it.
So, Big Steve, any chance that...
your stock goes back up above $40?
I mean, with the brilliant, brilliant penetration you are suggesting, of course it will.
Or else you walk the plank, eh?
p.s. goes for you too, Steve "Ribbon" Sinofsky.
Re: CDs are only a delivery mechanism now
>It's nothing to do with headphones. Even a cheap pair of 'phones is quite a high-fidelity reproduction device
Hah. Way to show that you don't know what you are talking about. Unless "cheap" means $200+ of course, to go with a "budget" $2000 amp.
I've always preferred splurging on the music itself, rather than droning about equipment. Or sampling/compression artefacts (http://blog.szynalski.com/2009/07/05/blind-testing-mp3-compression/). Basically I don't pretend my ears are special.
But get Sennheiser 555s or equiv ($250 reg, $75 sale when I got mine). Way, way better. I even use them for my work phone conferences now, much better at picking out people far from microphones.
No way cheap (< 80-100$ list) headphones are remotely comparable - I picked up lotsa nuances in songs I had never heard. Don't get me started on Apple-issue whites either. Headphones are the first kit to consider upgrading.
Re: Not a tax dodger?
I'll take a stab at this. The subjective pain of paying a given amount of tax varies highly depending on what the government does with it and what your fellow citizens are also paying.
I've paid taxes in France and in Canada. In one case, you have a government that hasn't managed to balance a budget in 30 yrs, a huge public sector payroll and a pension system that a first semester actuarial student would tell you will collapse in a few decades. Along with a population that believes that the government $ can fix anything.
In the other you have a country which radically reduced its spending in the mid 90s when it became clear it wasn't sustainable. Lots of pain but people generally take pride on running a balanced budget (the last few years have been an exception). When I pay taxes, I know that government spending is highly scrutinized.
Both France and Canada used my tax money to deliver on matters that I care about: public education and health. Both countries' general citizenry agree to pay fairly high taxes and don't pretend that only "the rich" should pay taxes.
The US on the other hand manages to run a huge deficit, deliver laughably overpriced healthcare in a highly unequal manner and is acknowledged to have an under-performing public education system. In a country where the median income is about 65K$, Pres. Obama "bravely" supports upping the taxes for those making >250K$ while Republicans state that no one should pay more taxes. So, I am basically hearing that someone making >90K$ cannot possibly give up any moneys to balance the budget. Only the very rich should pay, everyone assumes, but everyone will consume services and claim they are hard up. I find that obscene, even though I also find CEO level pay obscene. A Republican senator, the party of small government, sponsors a 250M$ bridge to nowhere in Alaska and almost gets away with it. US military spending outstrips what, the next 20 countries in the globe put together? The Senate and House dicker endlessly about BS without fixing the budget. Even while voters can't be bothered to pay taxes they are almost unique in the world in claiming taxes from their expats.
I don't know if Saverin is trying to dodge taxes or not. But were I in his shoes, I would feel little inclination to pouring money into such a dysfunctional system. I would pay what I owed and leave asap. Give me the impression that my money is being used wisely, including to help people less well off than me, and I will pay taxes without complaining much.
The law is the law, you say? Yes, but people can vote with their feet. Saverin is doing so.
You go girl
Frees up oodles of cash for exec bonuses & buying "relevant" businesses for lots of money (Autonomy and Skype come to mind).
Poor HP.
At least the voters in California didn't smoke-screened by this puppy.
Re: shocking
>and Facebook is bad at adverts but good at social
>and this is a surprise to who?
The folks plonking down $100B for FB, would be my guess ;-)
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Re: Will this save anything in taxes?
Yeah, those merkins sure like to be taxed. Uh, sorry, tax others.
Seriously, as much as aggregate US taxation levels are far below what their lavish government spending would require, it is astonishing how greedy their citizens can be in taxing others who have dared leave the mothership.
@Turtle
True words that.
Geeks like us aside, the simple fact is that Sony had a long-standing policy to make things as inconvenient and pricey as possible for its customers. That means non-standard hardware, strange file formats, convoluted EULAs and DRM-crippleware. To be honest, it might be their engineers with not-invented-here syndrome, not just the marketing suits. Also, absorbing piracy-obsessed media companies is hereby shown to be risky for hardware folks.
Sony seems to be wisening up lately, but I don't know if it will be in time for them to move back up from also-ran. The only hardware I have from them is a PS3, which I am happy enough with (50+ page mandatory OS-update EULAs aside). But they are definitely at the tail end of my prospective manufacturer list for new purchases.
Re: yes but ...
I was gonna ask precisely that. Isn't there something on Linux for that? I mean, that would be precisely where open source should shine, replacing expensive crappy _critical_ software.
On the other hand, I looked for a long time for an open source OCR and only found Tesseract (which is dated but still beats my crap $90 windows OCR hands down).
Shame that some types of deserving program categories never excite folks as much as others.
To the OP, txs for sharing. It is hard to understand the perspective without knowing how real life people are affected.
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose
Same thing here in Canada, also F35(A). Cost overruns, unclear procurement, politics.
The second lot to pay for this fiasco, 'sides the taxpayers, will be the soldiers, either when their F35s suck. Or, more likely, other soldiers, when the cheapo kit they get after the DoD kitty is left empty lets them down.
I also defy anyone to predict how well unmanned fighter craft will perform in the 2030+ timeframe, when those flying boondoggles are entering early middle age (or, possibly, even service). I know that's what I would considering, were I a PLA strategic planner.
Re: Old-timer Mac Fan despairs
Amen to that. The core OS, derived from BSD family, is probably pretty strong wrt to security. Much stronger than Windows, IMHO.
However... M$ has had a decade of justified user outrage about their crap security and has, to an extent, learned to take security seriously enough to mitigate the really sucky Windows underpinnings.
Fanbois who instinctively defend Apple miss the point that Apple's record is pretty lax when it comes to security, aside from what comes baked-in from BSD and Sudo. We had the LDAP goof a while back, the Flashback Trojans (2 acquaintances caught out), the MacDefender ("no don't support our infected users that would make it seem like we are not secure").
Now this.
Apple will need to get its s**t together or non-fanbois will balk at paying extra $ for still-insecure computers. They need to recognize that pricey computers => juicy targets for malware writers, esp. when the prevailing attitude seems to be "antivirus? what antivirus, I am on a Mac". They need to stand by their users' security, period. Over convenience, when needed.
One of my primary reasons for being on a Mac is not trusting Windows to store any sensitive info. F*** this up enough and I'll move out again.
Re: Beggars belief....
>Would've taken less than 10 seconds to the ground from 300 metres.
h = 1/2 g T squared.
Which roughly means that, yes, you are correct, it only took her about 8 seconds to land from that height.
Presumably you had a more sedate rate of descent in mind.
It would have been nice
for this article, or the other recents ones on this topic, to remind us that OS 10 is the coming-out of QNX release.
I suspected it was, but had to confirm that from Wikipedia.
Don't much care about Blackberry or RIM but have fond memories of seeing QNX on industrial PCs in the early 90s.
kiddo might have been a Reg reader...
considering the how polarized the readership here is about Macs, maybe this kid lurks amongst our very forums. I shudder at the thought and indeed feel my bladder loosening...
Aside from that this article was most entertaining on a dreary Monday morning. Though I confess "Badum tish" was too much for my English-as-a-second-language understanding.
Re: What's with all the HTML/CSS loathing?
I'll upvote you, but I think you are missing our (coders,admins) point somewhat.
I don't undervalue your skillset. HTML, CSS is easy to write. But quite hard to get just right. I know, I've dabbled in it. Good designers are valuable and arguably a bad designer will produce worse results than a bad coder, whose handicraft may work, but just slowly or in an error-prone fashion.
But, being a designer in HTML is a different skillset from being a developer altogether. When someone says that they want to promote programming and shows off his one-day, shake 'n bake, "programming class in HTML" to prove his point then that really leads me to wonder who decided that particular person was qualified to be an expert on technology.
Flip it around - "we need to promote web design skills so I've spent a day learning Visual Basic". Does that sound clever to you?
Re: Games should stay on Windows where DRM is already entrenched.
Ah, I could almost think your post was in jest. You know, as in showing how much Linux users appreciate choice and making a sarcastic post.
But, no, on balance I think you are just a troll.
Luckily, most of the other Penguin icons are appreciative.
In my mind, choice means that if you don't want DRM on your Linux boxen, you don't install DRM stuff. That's you and that is an entirely valid position to have.
And if someone else likes Linux _and_ games and want to stop subsidizing M$ by having to buy Windows to run games they would pay for anyway, then they buy games from vendors that support Linux. If they want to. Which does not infringe on your principles, because, like... those are not your boxen.
To me, that is choice.
But not in your version of free will, apparently. Where your principles are so valuable that they need to be imposed onto others.
To like or not to like?
(Disclaimer: if Tux Racer sets your loins afire, I am obviously talking out of my nethers from your viewpoint).
On one hand having Steam in the picture would allow porting of real, big-money, games. It would solve the distribution problem (no one carried Linux games in the early 2000s, when there was, briefly, an interest in Linux as a gaming platform).
It would solve piracy problems - the tight leash Steam puts on a game would probably not be crackable by most and a well-designed system would allow for occasional cracks and disabling some functionality games that are running on exploits. Then the usual patch-crack cycles would happen, but many people would just... pay.
Which is... good. If you are deluded enough to believe that a game studio who spent millions of dollars developing a game may deserve payment from its players. I am that kind of delusional person.
On the other hand, I have a licensed Shogun 2 running under Bootcamp on my Mac. After working for 3 months, Steam stopped working. The troubleshooting instructions for lost Steam connectivity looks like they were written up by a dyslexic C++ coder after a Red Bull binge on his personal blog.
"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
Nothing remotely user-friendly to allow me to use my $60 game.
And... Steam _always_ wants a call home. Even on a single-user game. How about allowing for non-connected solo play? Steam complaints are usually front and center of many game reviews.
On balance, I'll go with a cautious happy icon.
>They are diametrically opposite in terms of viewpoint
Not really. They are orthogonal. I am agnostic, but see no reason why you couldn't have a competent scientist that believed in God*.
This whole science vs. God thing is quite dreary, quite a new development post-Enlightenment and only a result of entirely too many merkins not being educated enough to know anything about well... anything. So that the slightest whiff of intellect has them swooning in righteous anger.
*while choosing to ignore some or all of the weird stuff like creationism, floods, virgin births, etc...
Re: Dismissive, any??
Totally agree. This sounds a LOT more interesting than ISS, base on the Moon or flying people to Mars. Or any of the crud that the meat-in-space parts of NASA has to dream up to justify its existence.
(I have much more respect for the automated-only parts of NASA . Like survey probes, sats and telescopes).
Sure, it is quite likely to fail, and I wouldn't _invest_ in it. Donate? Maybe. But these guys are likely smart enough to know that and have enough cash at hand to take a wild stab at getting us out of our current space rut. And it won't be run by politicians behooved to aerospace lobbyists.
Hats off, gentlemen. Even if it never makes it off the ground.
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>Do you have children?
Doh. I do, and I do know better than to entrust them with my credit card info.
Which is ultimately what you are doing when you give iTunes password. If you don't give it to them, problem solved. Rocket science?
I don't disagree that the freemium aspect is a scam of sorts and maybe Apple should ban those apps.
But ultimately you have to enter a password every time you make a purchase.
What do you propose the vendor do? Have you enter a password and... then what exactly? Just because he can't deal with his kids doesn't mean I want to be penalized with additional crap myself.
One thing they could do would be to NOT require the password on free apps/free addons. That way there would be no reason to give your kid any iTunes credentials whatsoever.
Anyways, I suspect Amazon one-click ebook purchases have the same risk as well. Worse, really, because my browser logs me in directly and there is no confirmation. Then again, I don't let my kids browse on my login.
Re: Oh dear, spoilers
Actually, with their winters seeming to come long and far apart ("you've never seen a winter, young grasshopper"), it could very well be that a Westorosi year is 8 or 10 of our years. So Daenerys is like totally geriatric.
Eeek.
Good thing the show fixed that then.
@Loyal Commenter. Steam? Really?
>A number of games on platforms such as Steam illustrate this point.
Yeah? Like when my Shogun 2, solo mode, stopped working because it couldna call home on Steam servers?
And like when I looked up the Steam "support" page related to my error message and it looked like a bored dev had slapped together a few paragraphs of "re-install, check Direct X, disable your firewall" hocus pocus and dead chicken administration rites.
Rather than a serious user-friendly troubleshooting guide explaining how I would get my $59 value from a game legally purchased, after the stupid anti-piracy network connectivity goes tits up.
Give me a £39 BD over that anyday ;-)
>Infected machines, not blank-eyed shuffling fanbois
Phhhew. Thanks for clarifying.
I was wondering if it was gonna be safe to get me morning espresso @ starbucks tomorrow.
No searchable FB data guys!
>Page had a little moan about Facebook's refusal to let the Chocolate Factory gain access to the contact details of users on Mark Zuckerberg's siloed network.
And I am grateful for FB's stance on that.
Don't get me wrong. I don't necessarily think badly of Google by itself. I use gmail after all. And I am willing to put up with FB and disclose a limited amount of information because I find FB useful.
But I have enough problem worrying about FB's ever-changing privacy settings without worrying about what Google searches show of my FB data.
Keep Google out of it!
Re: However, the deniers will soon be along to point out ...
My dear Graham, are you seriously suggesting that changing the atmospheric concentration of a known greenhouse gas from 260-280 to 380 ppm, and counting, will NOT increase temperature?
I mean, that is the basic position of the global warming doubters, innit? Basic high school level science taught to us over decades about how atmospheres retain heat. Everybody went along with that theory. Only now are the implications problematic and have a political and economic dimension.
As far as your brilliant argument goes, how about a simpler one?
If you pick up a number of different temperature prediction studies done in the past, you are bound to find some that fit well. So, judging solely from the contents of this article, it is hard to determine the significance of this prediction. You'd have to know how many other models there were and what they had to say.
Honestly, I wouldn't mind if the whole global warming thingy was a hoax. But I am not going to judge science based on my political outlook or personal consumption preferences. Right now, the main thing that gives me pause with the general scientific consensus is that there is a lot of money on the table for scientists to research global warming, which could tempt fudging.
If you, and a minority of scientists, are right, we have public policy being subverted, freewill limited and economic growth stifled. All for naught.
If you are wrong, we could have major ecological shifts in a much shorter time period than organisms will be likely be able to adapt to. Possibly famine and even positive feedback loops.
It's a question of value at risk and probabilities - you don't make a compelling case for me, but each voter has to make up her own mind. I think we are getting there, slowly.
Re: Also...
Odd, I wrote SQL for years on PeopleSoft, and DB2 was a supported platform. I am well aware of various other DB2 limitations of old, such as self-referential updates not being allowed. DB2 was always the most idiosyncratic of the lot.
But your case? Never. Sure you can't set it somehow at the session level? Google is yer friend....
Tough cookie, right?
What about the next time you sign an EULA? Do you want to read the entire War & Peace length of it just to make sure they don't do something retarded with your rights? Or at least, no more retarded than the average EULA?
EULAs and T&C exist, sure. But I don't want common-sense expectations of privacy to go out the door as well.
If you list your date of birth and exact address on FB, tough for you if someone uses that to hack your ID.
But expecting to be contacted by FB before you're prominently featured in a promotional campaign? Is that too much to ask???
IMHO: send her a case of champagne, pay off her lawyer and don't do it again. Another privacy lesson learned for FB.
Re: OK, I'll bite ...
>I always thought that consensus was the bane of science, like in evolution, AGW etc.
So are you saying that the current consensus about evolution theory being quite likely to be correct is a problem for science? What alternative theories have shown scientific basis for their acceptance again?
Re: hmm
Poor Alex.
By the number of your downvotes I fear a few commentards need to look up satire/sarcasm/irony.
Prosit München!
Regardless of your technical leanings, government savings on that order due to reduced licensing fees and hardware costs are excellent news.
Yes, it would be nice to know the relative meaning of an annual Euro 4M saving, but still, a big number in absolute terms regardless of the percentage of the budget it represents. Even if I am sure there must be some interesting details to niggle about that we are not privy to.
Not so good news for MS shareholders.
Re: A grab for your telephone number?
Oh, please. Like they could not figure it out elsewhere.
Especially if you are a gmail user - the most frequent # in a user's outbox is likely her own, neh?
Risk-wise, I am much more worried about some individual jerk taking over my account somehow and holding my gmail hostage than I am about Google's extra insight into my #.
YMMV.
copied from somewhere, but appropriate
(btw, I had the displeasure to drive a convertible Mustang in 2007 on a beautiful winding mountain road. Eeek, that is one sluggish, unresponsive and extremely gas guzzling motorized wheelbarrow. You can see why MS thought it was a good branding fit)
"""
At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."
In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five per cent of the roads.
6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light.
7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.
8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your cr would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna
9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.
"""
original @
http://www.yelp.com/topic/san-francisco-if-a-car-ran-like-a-computer
Re: ouch
>Which tablet maker sold 7.6 million units during the last quarter? Dream on Fandroid
Gotta, say, this post, and the lot preceding it, reaches a new high in the fanboi/android sux wars. Shining rhetoric, brilliant wit, cutting edge insights & well-argued opinions.
My daddy is better than your daddy! Nah, nah, nah, nah!
Unfortunately, verrry slowly, the rest of the posts start having interesting things to say.
Re: and
>Fanbois don't like facts (and the fact that you have been downvoted is evidence of this).
Craigness only got 1/25 downvote. You are up to 6/9.
Craigness uses facts, and interesting ones at that. The same can't be said of your oh so useful contribution ;-)
On a different level, I wonder if Appcelarator doesn't have a vested interest in playing up Android fragmentation, given their offerings. And I think those that have iPhone 3x might be leery in upgrading to later OS versions - I recall it being somewhat of a stinker when 4.0 came out. Now, I have no idea how big that user base is - might be somewhat bigger than expected with 3 yr contracts ;-)
>Also, if the water level is that high, how do they breathe? (The air pressure above 20,000 ft is insufficient to survive)
Hmmm, let's do a bit of thinking here. The air pressure at 20000 ft is low, because the air's settled down in the 20000 feet below that. You know, pressure gradients and the like.
If you start out at 20000 ft, 20000 is the new 0.
Neh?
Re: John Carpenter's Dark Star
Let there be light...
Re: Alien?
>Alien?
>Philistine!
Hey, don't be mean to the Philistines! They clearly have better taste than this guy.
So many...
Primary nomination: Southland Tales or Waking Life.
As far as Battlefield Earth goes - having read the book, I must say the movie did not truly do the book justice. The movie is pretty awful, sure. But the book is so much worse! All 900+ pages of it.
You gotta wonder about Scientologists - do they know how truly horrible Hubbard was as a writer??? I've read lots of SF and, yeah, it's a genre with its fair share of duds. But Hubbard is in a category all by himself.
p.s. (wiki for B.E.): "current US presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney pointed to the book as his favorite novel."
Re: Breakages in 3...2....1
>I'll be interested in signing up for this, let me dump my $50+/mth "traditional" bank merchant system
And you'll be dumped by people like me if it doesn't work with Visa. Or I might just avoid you on general principle for using PayPal.
Recently had another experience with PayPal, that I loathe. My vendor (etsy.com-based) meant to refund me shipping but instead refunded me the whole transaction on a Visa-through-Paypal payment.
I was fine with re-paying, but after I got my refund. Don't wanna pay twice.
Ordinarily, Visa should have seen a refund quickly. Uh, no. Not with Paypal. First Paypal refunds itself. Quickly, I assume. Then eventually, after some biz days, it supposedly turns around and tells Visa. Then it says that the refund is waiting for Visa. "Not our fault, guv. Visa's. Could take a month. Not our fault". Plus, I am on the line debating this with PayPal who I have no formal relationship with, unlike my bank's Visa.
Bottom line: 2 1/2 weeks from refund to transaction post in my Visa account. Can you guess whose bank account was collecting interest?
Mayhap no one wants to tell the emperor he has no clothes
I agree that a calculated gamble is one possible scenario. Certainly more plausible than "we really can't hear you when you say it sucks".
But it could just be that the average exec at MS would be putting his career in jeopardy by contradicting the decisions made by wiser heads higher up.
Wiser folks like Steve Ballmer and Steve Sinofsky, for example.
I mean, I rarely hear people sing the praise of the ribbon. And it wouldn't take much to have ribbons AND menus in Office for example. But, despite the annoyance of many users (at least above the age of 35), ribbons are getting more and more pervasive. And Sinofsky is Daddy Ribbon apparently.
So, if the big chiefs are singing Metro, what are the lil Indians working in UI design gonna say?
"Yes, Steve."
If only Ubuntu wasn't stuck in Gnome 3 and Unity, and instead aimed for stability and user friendliness, like the old Ubuntu :-(
A Windows-themed Linux distro aiming at Joe Average may still have a wider window of opportunity in the coming years. Porcos potest fugere and I would like that. Then again, Apple may just reap the benefits.
BTW, I rather liked the "everything on command line" article about Win 8 Server. Even if I don't like Powershell much. That may be their way of this s***hole.
clever comparison, fer sure
>Only Apple does not have an equivalent to Hadrian's wall and the barbarians are gathering.
Errr... you're aware that Hadrian's wall was only relevant in the context of the ass-end of the boonies of the Roman empire, right? At the height of Roman power.
The barbarians you are thinking of came several hundred years later, about a thousand miles away and by that time the Romans were kinda gone anyway from Britain anyway and couldna hae cared less about Scotland.
But don't let that get in the way of your entertaining us ;-)
Cobol of the 21st century indeed
Not because it will off anytime soon, unfortunately. Ditto Cobol.
Like Cobol was, Java is now the language of choice for the corporate masses.
Like Cobol, it has tons of features intended to promote a certain, often verbose, approach to programming because the designers thought it was a good idea.
Like Cobol, the afficionadoes believe that the rest of the programming languages are for sissies. Heck, any self-respecting Java book has to teach us about classes and objects, all over again.
Like Cobol, this is where there is a lot of employment - and a lot of salary competition as well.
Unlike Cobol, books on the language and all of its pet frameworks and libraries of the month fill bookshelf after bookshelf with weighty tomes of drudgery.
Like Cobol, one must admit, from afar hopefully, that it is quite successful in its niche.
Yes, this is shameful
Name: Joe Clever
FB Profile: Rich art collector
Home address (also on FB profile) : 101 Fleece Mew Street, SuckerTown, USA
It is absolutely shameful that interested well-wishers cannot precisely determine how far away Mr. Clever is from his home address at any point in time and instead have to rely on sloppy, error-prone, inadequately entered information.
Please correct ASAP.
Re: What's the difference?
>Q. What's the moral or ethical difference between me controlling the weapon via my fingers, and bypassing my fingers and controlling it directly from neural impulses.
A: Can't get as much funding to pontificate about finger control.
Re: Re: Re: Correction - firefox on MS's rubbish OS's
And I wonder whether those Win 7 users are protected if they, like many genius Win 7 reviewers typically recommend, went out of their way to disable Windows UAC (pseudo-Sudo) prompting?
Seriously, even when Microsoft does something right, some users who should know better (otherwise why be reviewing Win 7 Pro???) manage to aim solidly at their foot.
All good for the Penguins and Fanbois in this instance, but let's face it: the bad guys are getting smarter.
Re: Hurray!
>What Matt seems to have missed is that Apple like some of the other premium brands doesn't give a shit for market share never has done never will do - at least not at the expense of price.
Humm, this is like the other poster about Armani suits. Premium pricing strategies make a lot of sense in many cases. Including Apple's. But unlike suits and rolexes, phones and tablets are evolving rapidly. And to evolve your tech and make it shiny, you need sufficient R&D funds. You can't do that if you ship too few handsets, unlike say Hermes scarves which benefit from scarcity (and look silly/pretentious, IMHO).
I suspect you are both right - Apple will stick to its upmarket image branding and will make lots of money. But it will also need to watch the volume in order not to be out-innovated by the likes of Samsung.
Wondering...
(for all intents and purposes a noob here - security is only tangentially in my interests)
If you have P2P control, could the white hats not set up counter measures to issue instructions to cease & desist? Or some other kinda neutralization/sabotage/owner identification strategy?
I mean, if all of a sudden those trojan's peers can issue commands, then how do they know to trust those peers? I assume signatures and encryption are used to authenticate, but still, there must be some opportunity here, until the next improved version.
Dare I say it?
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/407555_158851090901257_136257933160573_199310_607561453_n.jpg
Naw, gonna keep me mouth shut.
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