I never saw Apple call itself this way, but I can be wrong, I believe it's more of an Apple rumors thing, like some years ago some people were telling how Apple would just put it's custom designed CPU on Macbooks and build everything by itself, including GPU.
This happened even here in HN, I think these guys are the equivalent of the MS fans back at the time of the dot-com bubble telling how MS would rule the world.
I didn't said it was, but if you think their high margins can be sustained forever then I think the discussion is over and you're just cheering for Apple, nothing wrong with that, but it's not what I think is sensible for people to do, cheer for Apple, Google, MS or whatever.
It's now written on the wall for everyone to see that devices will fall in price in the next decade and with it will go profit margins, money will be made by volume of sales, Samsung is just where like Nokia once was in this place, Google just want to accelerate that because it makes business sense to them.
Apple already realized that as their recent announcement demonstrated.
There's a couple of replies to your post but no one of them really care that HN got a shitstorm of posts about American politics in the last 2 years or so and that it became a lot worse two months ago with posts about NSA populating the front page. I really don't see how this is different from quora.
I don't really know how this is different, I just since left reading HN on a regular basis.
Must be a different Argentina, I was there these days and although some guys that works in the Argentinian branch of the bank I work were very tech-savvy and were complaining the restrictions of moving money out of the country they did not cite Bitcoin, at all, some were venturing with buying gold and moving it out of Argentina but that was all.
For me it was odd, bitcoin appears a good way to move money from there to the other side of the River Plate.
I'm only throwing my opinion, I'm not really into security but I spend some time studying networks and low level stuff as a hobby, any specialist will probably point my errors below.
Depends on the device no? Suppose you have a chip with a backdoor, if said chip depends on a OS to operate and you can for example block connections (using a packet filter, either blacklisting the undesirable ones or drop all except the whitelisted ones), then whatever backdoor is there will need an unblocked connection to be activated.
As I see it the majority of hardware backdoors would only be useful if you can have some sort of access to the device, either remotely in a network the device is connected, physically (as far as I understand that's how Stuxnet spread in Iran) or if the user willingly executes some code that exposes the backdoor to you over some routing.
Maybe ignorance yes, the fact is I do not share their experience, I only watched dubbed stuff in either Hebrew or Portuguese until my early teens although I learned Yiddish first. It was from mainly 2000 to 2002 that I learned to read subtitles and after that I never needed it anymore unless in a language that I don't know.
The majority of stimulation we receive is just waste of time by your philosophy.
You're right about one thing though, my American (and British, Australians, Anglo Canadians among others from the same language group) friends are lazy as hell to read subtitles generally, the majority never ever getting interest of learning another language since almost anyone learns some English, which really puzzles me.
Insurance underwriting probably will become more and more automated, the exceptions are the cases with large values involved, in the short run, definitely this will be automated some day as well, or insurance in which only a small part of the population pay for insurance and the sample is small too do any meaningful statistics.
Anyway there'll probably always be people behind the algorithms doing the modeling or programming at least.
I for one wanted to do some tedious non automatable box editing over ssh, emacs have a default extension (mode?) to do this which did not worked in the terminal, tried some quick stuff on config, did not work. Every page I found on how to fix the stuff forced me to read for more time than I had to do the task, I just did it with vim.
I'm just trying to learn some emacs and although I see its value, the emacs experience is not for me, my vimrc is like every other config file that I have, a bare minimum. People who use emacs generally tweak the editor with thousand of lines of elisp.
Depends on what you call live stream and the battery of the device, if you mean record and transmit live video the no, that would need too much power for such a device.
There's no unstable 2.7, it's mainly because of that. The change to 3.0 happened basically to signal that.
EDIT: For those who do not remember the 2.x stuff when x was a odd number the version was unstable, when it was an even number the version was stable and basically was what distributions used.
I'll answer because you appear to be serious about that but consider that I think Ayn Rand ideas pure moonshine, I'll go to sleep now and maybe later I'll come back here and write properly about my opinions on her if you wish.
It's my experience the majority of people just don't really care about political philosophy, they just live and that's all, they are really more interested on who are romantically attracted to them than to think about all the stuff Rand wrote.
I really don't know what you were taught, I studied in a Jewish religious school (a Yeshiva) and for the matter my experience was very different than that of my peers when I reached university, in university I was taught mathematics only and professors had a myriad of political views, including the one who introduced me to Rand's work. But yes, the traditional Jewish thought is very different than whatever Rand ever wrote.
> Are we supposed to make the general category suffer because some 20 generations back a ancestor of their made a mistake.
So what's your proposal here? I would love that each generation we had the wealth allocated on a purely merit basis but the world does not work like that, I know a fair share of mediocre people with fortunes who can send their children to better schools and some smarter poor fellas that can't, and besides I live in Brazil and ignoring the past did not produced a really better alternative.
Dude I live in Brazil where we have dish washers and washing machines for decades and here the upper middle class really never let their maids go with a fair salary or even said they were unnecessary once these stuff became available, I doubt they will disappear overnight, just like they did not over here.
This happened even here in HN, I think these guys are the equivalent of the MS fans back at the time of the dot-com bubble telling how MS would rule the world.
EDIT: a "this" became "these"