It depends on what kind of functionality you want. With my iPod classic I use foobar on the iPod itself as a portable application to manage my music collection. My iPod touch is completely jailbroken and can install 3rd party apps via iTunes. But as another poster correctly pointed out, unless you're willing to devote a lot of time and potentially brick your device, you're pretty much stuck in the walled-garden.
Would I be allowed to drive slowly down a street taking pictures of kids at a park as long as I wasn't a convicted pedophile? I don't care about Microsoft's past, what I care about is the frightening path that Apple is trying to force technology to follow in the present and the future.
I don't give a damn if I need Apple's permission to sell apps in their store. As has been beaten to death here, it is their store. My problem is with them restricting 3rd party installations. If Windows takes the same route with Mobile 7 and doesn't allow manual installs then they'll be just as evil as Apple. This is tantamount to you being told that you can only purchase MP3s from iTunes despite the fact that your device is perfectly capable of handling music from a variety of sources. Jobs is simply afraid that if he gives consumers a choice it will undermine the lock-in that he is trying so desperately to complete.
Damn! The PC is irrelevant? When did this happen? Is it too late to sell all of mine? "Cloud Computing", slates, pads, etc. are all simply the latest flavors of the week. If you truly believe that the PC is going to become a niche product then I have a bridge in Alaska to sell to you.
It was a similar situation with 3G, copy and paste, and a plethora of other features that were added well after the fact. The fanboys claimed that they didn't want all of that. 3G drained the battery, copy and paste complicated the UI, etc. It's all about the Reality Distortion Field being pumped up to levels of recockulousness.
I hope I didn't come off as sarcastic. It was a legitimate question. Whenever Apple gets involved emotions always run hot one way or another. Oh and 'douchebaggery' is now my new favorite word.
An open network, much like an unlocked door or a drunkenly passed out girl is not an invitation for invasion. Granted like most people here I use WPA and don't even broadcast my AP. I agree with you that it is stupid practice, but that doesn't make intrusion morally right.
How in the heck do you "accidentally" gather information over a wireless network? If all you want is a collection of AP's that's one thing, but any storage of packet data no matter how temporary cannot be considered an accident. It has to be planned out and executed. An accident is stubbing my toe on the nightstand, this is an invasion of privacy.
True, but unless they were 100% sure it was Apple's wouldn't handing it over without verification simply have added to their list of crimes? Just because something looks shiny and has no sharp edges doesn't necessarily necessarily make it an Apple product. Heck it had a slot for an SD card, I wouldn't have believed it was Apple's either.
Solution? Asshole student who found the phone goes to prison. Asshole "journalist" who bought a device with the hope that it was stolen and the intent to use it for his own benefit goes to prison. Gawker Media is held liable for civil damages to Apple--likely they go bankrupt because of it.
They're all criminals, they should all pay.
Would you be this vehement if it weren't an Apple prototype?
Lets say HTML5 becomes the perfect tool to a point that even Adobe starts to depreciate their own stuff for it... What will be done about the needs of professional content creators? DRM? Anti-rip? Today's media logic says "There has to be some sort of inconvenience and responsibility creating thing in a media framework". For example, everyone knows DVD CSS is dead,easily cracked but it is still implemented on movies especially to create a situation that user has to run "illegal software" to rip the commercial DVD.
How do you implement DRM "openly"? Remember Real Networks CEO suggested Linux/BSD guys should really think about a DRM standard and everyone (rightfully) laughed at him? HTML5 now has the same issue, globally.
The same way you do with images, a simple javascript no-right-click function! In all seriousness people are always going to find a way to copy digital content. For basic YouTube stuff there's a plethora of Firefox plugins that will pull video and even convert it for you. Could you stop someone from using screencap software to simply snag the video? How about from outputting the signal to a stand-alone DVD recorder? The law of diminishing returns takes effect, but the studios are so paranoid about maintaining their stranglehold on content they're perfectly willing to cut off their nose to spite their face.
Why is it supposedly illegal to download a show that is freely broadcast over public airwaves?
Maybe it has something to do with tax season (at least in the U.S.)? Or the fact that there weren't many big name releases this month? If you want to attribute slumping sales to iWhatever uptake, I'd like to see correspondingly high games sales numbers for the device. Otherwise I call shenanigans.
Personally I love my little MSI netbook. Overclockable when on AC power and a strong battery to boot. I was using Ubuntu 9.10 netbook remix for awhile and have since upgraded to 10.04. Unfortunately it still requires CLI tweaking every now and again. It's pretty and fairly polished, but I still wouldn't trust it with my parents or less technologically savvy friends.
The problem isn't the opt-in. The problem is the arbitrary changing of the TOS with little fanfare. I will grant you that I am a giant hypocrite since I doubt I'll be abandoning Facebook any time soon. I think I was able to deal with TV and radio because it was just broad advertising. Being targeted just seems a little creepier.
Serious? Our eyes and minds are being sold to advertisers and you don't find that troubling? We are not the consumers any more, we are the product. If society mimicked Facebook you're damned right there'd be privacy concerns. If I stop by a motorcycle shop to buy some oil and they sold that information to other distributors without my consent so they could bombard me with unwanted solicitations there would be hell to pay.
But at what point do we draw the line? I love reading and posting on/. and my current job is IT, but my Master's is in Anthropology. If a hairy-knuckled liberal arts person like myself can crack WEP in a matter of minutes are we going to require that people use WPA? And once that becomes easier to crack are we going to require the use of the next iteration? Heck there are times when I leave my truck unlocked, I sure hope that if somebody hot-wired it and took it on a 4 state killing spree I wouldn't be held even partially culpable.
I'm sure you'll get modded down for your comment, but you are dead on. The fact of the matter is many people choose style over substance without ever knowing that they're buying a very restricted device.
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It depends on what kind of functionality you want. With my iPod classic I use foobar on the iPod itself as a portable application to manage my music collection. My iPod touch is completely jailbroken and can install 3rd party apps via iTunes. But as another poster correctly pointed out, unless you're willing to devote a lot of time and potentially brick your device, you're pretty much stuck in the walled-garden.
Would I be allowed to drive slowly down a street taking pictures of kids at a park as long as I wasn't a convicted pedophile? I don't care about Microsoft's past, what I care about is the frightening path that Apple is trying to force technology to follow in the present and the future.
I don't give a damn if I need Apple's permission to sell apps in their store. As has been beaten to death here, it is their store. My problem is with them restricting 3rd party installations. If Windows takes the same route with Mobile 7 and doesn't allow manual installs then they'll be just as evil as Apple. This is tantamount to you being told that you can only purchase MP3s from iTunes despite the fact that your device is perfectly capable of handling music from a variety of sources. Jobs is simply afraid that if he gives consumers a choice it will undermine the lock-in that he is trying so desperately to complete.
Damn! The PC is irrelevant? When did this happen? Is it too late to sell all of mine? "Cloud Computing", slates, pads, etc. are all simply the latest flavors of the week. If you truly believe that the PC is going to become a niche product then I have a bridge in Alaska to sell to you.
Would you make your 5-year-old child smoke a cigarette?
Maybe. Are all of his friends doing it?
It was a similar situation with 3G, copy and paste, and a plethora of other features that were added well after the fact. The fanboys claimed that they didn't want all of that. 3G drained the battery, copy and paste complicated the UI, etc. It's all about the Reality Distortion Field being pumped up to levels of recockulousness.
I hope I didn't come off as sarcastic. It was a legitimate question. Whenever Apple gets involved emotions always run hot one way or another. Oh and 'douchebaggery' is now my new favorite word.
You are correct sir. Now that I have a new toy to play with over the weekend I thank you, although my social life does not.
What Ben Roethlisberger does on his own time is his business.
An open network, much like an unlocked door or a drunkenly passed out girl is not an invitation for invasion. Granted like most people here I use WPA and don't even broadcast my AP. I agree with you that it is stupid practice, but that doesn't make intrusion morally right.
How in the heck do you "accidentally" gather information over a wireless network? If all you want is a collection of AP's that's one thing, but any storage of packet data no matter how temporary cannot be considered an accident. It has to be planned out and executed. An accident is stubbing my toe on the nightstand, this is an invasion of privacy.
True, but unless they were 100% sure it was Apple's wouldn't handing it over without verification simply have added to their list of crimes? Just because something looks shiny and has no sharp edges doesn't necessarily necessarily make it an Apple product. Heck it had a slot for an SD card, I wouldn't have believed it was Apple's either.
Solution? Asshole student who found the phone goes to prison. Asshole "journalist" who bought a device with the hope that it was stolen and the intent to use it for his own benefit goes to prison. Gawker Media is held liable for civil damages to Apple--likely they go bankrupt because of it.
They're all criminals, they should all pay.
Would you be this vehement if it weren't an Apple prototype?
Last I checked, $8500 - $5000 is $3500, not $2500.
Calculated on an Intel chip.
Do not question master Yoda!
Lets say HTML5 becomes the perfect tool to a point that even Adobe starts to depreciate their own stuff for it... What will be done about the needs of professional content creators? DRM? Anti-rip? Today's media logic says "There has to be some sort of inconvenience and responsibility creating thing in a media framework". For example, everyone knows DVD CSS is dead,easily cracked but it is still implemented on movies especially to create a situation that user has to run "illegal software" to rip the commercial DVD.
How do you implement DRM "openly"? Remember Real Networks CEO suggested Linux/BSD guys should really think about a DRM standard and everyone (rightfully) laughed at him? HTML5 now has the same issue, globally.
The same way you do with images, a simple javascript no-right-click function! In all seriousness people are always going to find a way to copy digital content. For basic YouTube stuff there's a plethora of Firefox plugins that will pull video and even convert it for you. Could you stop someone from using screencap software to simply snag the video? How about from outputting the signal to a stand-alone DVD recorder? The law of diminishing returns takes effect, but the studios are so paranoid about maintaining their stranglehold on content they're perfectly willing to cut off their nose to spite their face.
Why is it supposedly illegal to download a show that is freely broadcast over public airwaves?
I kinda like the wording, like Apple is going to send back an iTerminator to take out Mario when he is still in his 8-bit phase.
Maybe it has something to do with tax season (at least in the U.S.)? Or the fact that there weren't many big name releases this month? If you want to attribute slumping sales to iWhatever uptake, I'd like to see correspondingly high games sales numbers for the device. Otherwise I call shenanigans.
I have Meerkat running now on my Mini...so far so good.
Doesn't that scratch the finish?
Personally I love my little MSI netbook. Overclockable when on AC power and a strong battery to boot. I was using Ubuntu 9.10 netbook remix for awhile and have since upgraded to 10.04. Unfortunately it still requires CLI tweaking every now and again. It's pretty and fairly polished, but I still wouldn't trust it with my parents or less technologically savvy friends.
The problem isn't the opt-in. The problem is the arbitrary changing of the TOS with little fanfare. I will grant you that I am a giant hypocrite since I doubt I'll be abandoning Facebook any time soon. I think I was able to deal with TV and radio because it was just broad advertising. Being targeted just seems a little creepier.
Serious? Our eyes and minds are being sold to advertisers and you don't find that troubling? We are not the consumers any more, we are the product. If society mimicked Facebook you're damned right there'd be privacy concerns. If I stop by a motorcycle shop to buy some oil and they sold that information to other distributors without my consent so they could bombard me with unwanted solicitations there would be hell to pay.
Just goes to prove that DRM only hampers legitimate paying customers. Pirates simply laugh (usually with a jolly "yar!").
But at what point do we draw the line? I love reading and posting on /. and my current job is IT, but my Master's is in Anthropology. If a hairy-knuckled liberal arts person like myself can crack WEP in a matter of minutes are we going to require that people use WPA? And once that becomes easier to crack are we going to require the use of the next iteration? Heck there are times when I leave my truck unlocked, I sure hope that if somebody hot-wired it and took it on a 4 state killing spree I wouldn't be held even partially culpable.
I'm sure you'll get modded down for your comment, but you are dead on. The fact of the matter is many people choose style over substance without ever knowing that they're buying a very restricted device.