They are aware of it and still build inferior quality cables. This is a problem across their entire product line, from MacBooks to iPods, iPhones and iPads.
The commenter you responded to did provide a case for Apple trying to fix that though, didn't he? I'd expect it to be rolled out across the next refresh of the product line. Might be naive?
Can someone please explain the whole story from the start? I do not understand anything.
5by5 has an app, only recently released. Why would there be another one? Is the app 5by5 has the same as this Mule one? What is this Mule thing? Is it completely new?
Dan was talking about iOS app for long, long time - it was (presumably) nearly finished, but never released - app that was released recently is new project/rewrite of the old one.
Note: I listen to Talk Show only occasionally, I'm more of Hypercritical guy.
So, Dan wanted an iOS app for some time now (year? more?) - and he was working with Black Pixel (http://blackpixel.com) on that.
We don't know exactly why, but that app was never released - Dan stopped talking about it (I'm not actually sure about this, somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.). Recently, he (again, not sure) wrote new app - that's what's on App Store as 5by5 app.
Parts of "old" app were apparently reused by Black Pixel while working on Mule Radio app (also by Black Pixel.).
The 5by5 app is a lot more live-listening-focused than the Black Pixel one. The Black Pixel/Mule app is a curated podcasting client. The current 5by5 app is specifically focused on live broadcast/notification/listening. It's an interesting contrast, IMHO; I wish each app had some of the features of the other.
There's only one. 5by5's app is for listening to live broadcasts of shows on their network.
Presumably, they were previously working with BlackPixel to do a podcasting app for the 5by5 shows, which was never released. The Mule Radio app appears to be a re-branded version of that unreleased app.
According to this tweet by Dan Benjamin about adding podcasting to the 5by5 app, he feels other apps already do it better. This may have been the reason why they scuttled their own podcasting app and went with a live broadcast app instead:
Intel doesn't support USB3 yet. USB3 devices aren't even yet widespread. Since space is at a premium in the Airs, Apple obviously doesn't add an extra USB3 chip in them just to support what still is a niche feature.
Ivy Bridge does bring USB3 support. If the next generation of MacBooks (coming this summer) doesn't support USB3 you get to make your claim that Apple is trying to force Thunderbolt as a mass market technology. But no second earlier.
Thunderbolt also requires additional hardware. When Ivy Bridge brings built-in USB3, Thunderbolt will still require additional hardware. And Thunderbolt devices aren't nearly as widespread as USB3 ones. (I can go to Target and buy a USB3 memory stick right now; it's not certain that Thunderbolt memory sticks will ever exist.) They tend to cost over twice as much, too.
Take a look at the Cinema Display. Thunderbolt is Apple’s docking station replacement. That’s its purpose and it’s awesome. They are pushing Thunderbolt because it’s a perfect solution for a problem Apple has had for a long time. You have to be blind to Apple’s ecosystem to not see that.
They are not pushing it to replace USB3. That doesn’t even make sense. When Ivy Bridge MacBooks ship without USB3 you can claim that. No second earlier.
Yes, Apple is, like Intel, not enthusiastic about USB3. They don’t think it’s so important to move super fast. It’s just not top-priority. They will add it when it doesn’t cost them much and doesn’t add constraints to their design. But they are not stupid enough to believe that Thunderbolt could replace USB. Both technologies complement each other.
This is a pervasive problem, one of the prime examples of why knowing the basics about algorithms and programming is a great skill to have.
Many people do not think about whether they can automate certain things. Even if you tell them too, they will often not have the right mindset for it and be unable to recognize that something is automatable.
This is not the fault of those people, it’s a fault of education. Automation is not intuitive, it’s not something humans understand instinctively. To know what works and what doesn’t, to know what’s possible, people need to learn the basics about how to code. (Maybe some will even be able to do some of it themselves, while others can at least ask around for an actual implementation.)
No, it’s not the solution to the failing education system in the US. No, it’s not the best thing since sliced bread. It’s not the savior. What it is, though, is just a good idea.
> This is not the fault of those people, it’s a fault of education. Automation is not intuitive, it’s not something humans understand instinctively.
Actually, I think a large number of people who are good programmers figured out automation on their own, meaning the education system is almost entirely useless when it comes to this. We all have our own stories for this moment of enlightenment - mine was writing TI calculator programs to "automate" problem sovling in middle school algebra.
Well, yes, "people who are good programmers". The point here is though that the others should get an idea about this. There will always be people who don;t understand the easiest of procedures, but I am sure a large number of people would understand automation if the idea was given to them (at an early age).
Probably would they then think about it when the need arrises, and maybe come up with some creative solutions. If we just leave it to the natural good programmers, the solutions may be better, but the number will be lower.
That’s not really what I meant. Most people do not know what algorithms are in the first place. That’s what you have to teach. You would tell them that some of the most common tasks are searching and sorting, for example, and then show different ways of doing it. It’s not about picking out the best algorithm, it’s about showing which types of problems are usually solved with algorithms and also explaining some of them, maybe also in a second step how those algorithms can be combined to solve more practical and complex problems.
That way people learn what’s possible. But you are of course right, in most cases even a naive implementation is better than manual labor.
I think that people are trying to coin separate terms to differentiate the amount of knowledge one needs to complete the task. E.g. writing some automation in Python is easier than writing the same automation in C due to a lack of needing to understand things like character arrays and malloc. In reality, it's all programming, just via different interfaces.
> Where by "script" I mean to write a program, but for ad hoc tasks, and on a relatively small scale.
By that, I meant that a “script” is a specific type of program. “Scripting” is a subset of “programming”. Any type of program is a “program”. To be a “script”, a program must be for an ad hoc (one-time) task, and small relative to other programs. At least, according to my idea of the definition – though it is unclear what the “official” definition is.
Mass protests (ala OWS) were never really a focus of the Pirate Party. They were always about direct political participation (i.e. competing in elections). That’s not so realistic in the US where majorities are necessary to win seats and offices.
The Pirate Party very clearly represents a minority and has no realistic perspective of ever representing a majority. They are also not very geographically clustered. In democracies with proportional elections that’s not so much an issue.
The Green Party in Germany very clearly also represents a minority and has no realistic perspective of ever representing the majority, nevertheless it has been phenomenally successful during the last decades, not only as a opposition party but also as a party with government participation, both on the state and federal level. (The Greens were Gerhard Schröder’s coalition partner on the federal level.)
In the US, much of this has to happen inside existing parties with a realistic perspective (consequently, parties in the US are quite a bit less organized and there is much more fierce competition inside parties). Ron Paul tries to be different within the pre-existing framework of the Republican Party. The Tea Party Movement tries to be different within the pre-existing framework of the Republican Party.
Also, remember that this is only happening in Germany. A very special set of circumstances seems to have conspired there to create that success. This isn’t even happening elsewhere in Europe (at least not yet), not even in countries with political systems very similar to that in Germany. It seems like Germany is the special case here, not so much other places.
You are funny. Those stats have always looked quite similar for Germany, back to the fifties. Alone for that reason they cannot be a good indicator for whether a country is civilized. I’m sorry, but state sponsored murder of 11 million innocent people is not outweighed by the police only shooting very few bullets at criminals. Talking in those terms is just bullshit, it’s a weird worldview, one that especially Germans should be ashamed for expressing.
Most of the people that where 20 in ~1930 are not alive today. I'm a 17 yrs old German and I can't feel responsible for what some people I dont even know have done a hundred years ago. That would be as stupid as the concept of original sin....
Have I killed Jews? Did my dad? My Grandfather?
Nope. My family lived outside the big cities the entire time.
Even so. If your Grandfather killed someone before you even were born. How could you feel responsible? It's not like you were able to whisper: "kill him! Kill him!"
But of course we can learn from that tragedy. Everyone can. But learning something and being responsible are two completely different things. It's ok if you say Germany's responsible though.
The lesson of the Holocaust is "look at the nasty things that Humans can do. Don't do that." It is absolutely not "look at the nasty things that Germans can do." The more that people make the latter argument, the less they've learned the learned the lesson of the Holocaust.
NB.: I'm of Jewish ancestry and have counted several Holocaust survivors among my friends. This shit is personal for me.
