Comment This item... (Score 1) 340
...appears to rest on the posit that Apple cares about IT managers, rather than wishes to eliminate them as a class, Kulak style.
Comment The could do that... (Score 1) 318
...or they could just implement a proper convoy system
Comment Re:Nice conspiracy theory, but... (Score 1) 514
You seriously believe a company like Apple cannot ramp up production if there is demand?
Learn the concept of marginal returns. I am quite certain Apple could buy up more production capacity. I am equally certain it could not do so in an economically viable way. Not all demand is profitable. The other makers are equally constrained, which is why none of them can produce a viable tablet to compete on price with iPad.
Comment Re:If Google bought music labels (Score 1) 472
Google sells eyeballs to advertisers.
What about those of us who don't want our eyeballs sold?
Comment Re:Right on. He's an idiot. (Score 1) 831
This clown should be catapulted into the sun.
Actually, catapulting something into The Sun is much harder than it looks. Just sayin'...
Comment Re:Hilarious (Score 1) 492
Since when is "virus takes out small company's computers" a story that shows up on the news?
Are you serious? You don't think Gizmodo, Engadget, Ars, and all the rest wouldn't be all over this like a rash? And Giz has a track record of paying cold hard cash for stories...
Comment Re:Hilarious (Score 3, Insightful) 492
Yet oddly, this amazing event didn't make the news.
I suspect your pants are on fire.
Comment Trolling in the OP, now? (Score 0) 492
Apple has just released Safari 5.0.4 and iOS 4.3 a few minutes before the Pwn2Own contest in an attempt to save face
Yes. I'm sure dissing pose2own was foremost in Apple's thinking when planning its release schedule.
Comment Re:Peer review is broken (Score 1) 962
But then they "prove" that it doesn't.
No, they showed that it is less effective at primary prevention the previously supposed, (but still very effective at secondary prevention).
The trick is to develop the hypothesis properly. Also, there is a lot more to "proving" than a null hypothesis - that is just a useful logical device, especially when using statisitcal significance as a metric (as well as helping to check that the hypothesis is amenable to falsification).
And the statins I take are generic and long out of patent, so "big pharma" is way past caring about them.
Real science is hard and takes time. What is taught in a few paragraphs today took Newton a lifetime to perceive.
Comment Re:Peer review is broken (Score 1) 962
Things are getting more difficult to prove.
Only if you use the mathematical definition of proof, which science does not.
"Proof" in science, is more-or-less synonymous with "test". As in proving grounds, proof-spirit, the exception that proves (ie tests the limit of) the rule...
Comment Re:Generic Trademarks (Score 1) 356
Indeed - so it isn't generic is the way the geekerati assert.
Comment Re:Generic Trademarks (Score 2) 356
However, when you say the word "App Store", I think that conjures up images of just about any sort of app stores that we have nowadays - Palm's, Blackberry's, Windows Phone's Android's, etc
That is rather Apple's point: the others are living off the goodwill created by Apple's innovation ("passing off", in the parlance). ie, Apple's argument is that it has become generic because others lifted it. And I believe US trademark law operates on a "use it or lose it" principle that requires trademarks to be defended actively.
Also, I would bet a reasonable amount of cash that if you did a survey of non-geek smartphone users, most would think "iPhone" to the prompt "App store".
New MacBook Pro Teardown Reveals 'Shoddy Assembly' 531
CWmike writes "Apple's new MacBook Pro shows some build-quality problems that shouldn't be seen in a notebook that costs $1,800, a teardown expert said on Monday. iFixit.com found several signs of substandard assembly while disassembling a 15-in. MacBook Pro. Among them: A stripped screw near the subwoofer enclosure and an unlocked ZIF (zero insertion force) socket for the IR (infrared) sensor. '[These] should not be things found inside a completely unmolested computer with an $1,800 base price,' iFixit said in the teardown description. iFixit also spotted an unusual amount of thermal paste applied to both the CPU and the GPU. 'Holy thermal paste! Time will tell if the gobs of thermal paste applied to the CPU and GPU will cause overheating issues down the road,' iFixit said. The refreshed MacBook Pro models launched last Thursday in what one analyst called a 'ho-hum' upgrade."
Comment Re:It was just a matter of time (Score 1) 263
Mod parent up!
Comment Re:It was just a matter of time (Score 1) 263
but what are all those mutations if not evolution in action?
Coders, coding. Or "God" if you prefer. Computer viruses: the creationists' wet dream.
