The vulnerability affects the bootloader. Apple will NEVER, EVER, EVER replace the bootloader by a user update. Any disruption while replacing the bootloader equals a truly dead iPhone. While we may have come to expect complications with our computers, cell phones are another story.
If anything, we'll see an updated bootloader in new phones, but the millions already on the market will still be available to be unlocked. Though, Apple will probably have yet ANOTHER security audit so make sure the 2nd gen iPhone has no cracks for illegal activities.
Aren't we glad that:
a) there's no line-item veto
b) President can't make laws
Even though the Constitution doesn't allow either and specifically prohibits the latter, there are still some things the President can't explicitly do (implicitly he's run amuck by breaking laws, but he still can't make them thankfully).
It's designed so that no browser as 100% because they ALL have work to do in complying with the latest standards out there for web development.
Specifically however, the Acid tests are a bitch because they test purposefully incorrectly written code and expect a certain "defined" result. Then again, standards are standards.
With the amount of time those data packets are in the air, I'd prefer mobile broadband be only for when you are actually mobile. Plus, for the heavy downloader and gamer, they already know the answer to that question.
Caps are one thing, but soon they may start charging for bandwidth by the megabyte. Downloading a patch for Windows would then actually COST you money.
Very true. When you get outside major cities with a low density of towers, then it's a lot harder to determine exactly where you are. You could never really use it for turn-by-turn navigation in a car. However, for people on the go outside of their car, it doesn't matter as much. Probably still the best thing the MyLocation feature offers is a very fast way to pinpoint where you might be on a map without typing it in. Incredibly useful in places where you are lost but there are lots of signs. Pretty easy to determine where you are on a map the figure it out from there.
Hope fore a 1.1.3 unlock soon. 1.1.2 wasn't worth upgrading to, so I'm still on 1.1.1.
Math by itself is not useful unless you just like adding numbers. It's only by actually having an applied purpose that you'll need it (physics, economics, chemistry).
The idea of a rebate is to make it somewhat difficult for most people to use it (or just forget about it completely), otherwise stores would just drop the price automatically. I mean, realistically, it's the same price right?
But of course, it's not, and mail-in rebates are sucker's way to get people to buy items hoping to get money back (and they may never get it back)
If the iPhone is a closed platform, then technically there should only be one state the SOFTWARE should be in and Apple should check for that, otherwise refuse to update. We'd understand if we were modifying hardware and the phone bricked (and it would probably a hardware bricking with no chance of recovery), but if people are able to downgrade their phone to previous versions, then I think Apple should be obligated to provide such a feature, otherwise they KNOW that new firmware revisions can cause problems and are technically doing nothing to solve the problem. That's the equivalent of malicious intent.
Same idea as knowing someone is going to commit murder and sitting on your ass about it. You are liable too if you did nothing to stop it.
Because usually when stuff is "bricked", it can't be turned on at all. Hardware-wise, it is broken.
However, in the iPhone's case, it's is CLEARLY software that is causing the phone not to work. If Apple was forced to "unlock" re-locked phones tomorrow or pay hefty fines, they easily could. And that's what I call malicious intent. The hardware isn't causing vendor lock-in, but the software running on that hardware. Very easy to tell by the fact that people can downgrade their firmware and get hardware-wise, a fully functional phone.
I guess the correct term is "lame duck", not "bricked" because it can easily be restored if Apple were forced to do so.
It would be different if they had checked to see if the phone was in a "normal", expected state before doing the update, but I find silly warnings as negligence. If Apple knows that applying the update WILL brick an unlocked phone and they are doing nothing about it, that right there is where malice comes in. When updating BIOS firmware, computer manufacturers always build in safe-guards to protect people from flashing the wrong firmware. What's the difference between than and this?
Again, I'd like to see this stopped to prevent a slippery-slope from happening in the future.
Yep. Simplest answer is always best. I don't see why people would have thought that the 8GB iPhone would have sold when the 16GB iPod Touch does just about all the important features the phone has. People would be wondering why they are spending $300 to be locked into a contract! The price HAD to drop as soon as we new the 16GB iPod Touch was going to be sold for $399. It would have made no sense otherwise.
Now, if people REALLY want to be mad, it should be that Apple KNEW they were going to drop the price before they launched the iPhone. Maybe it wasn't right at MacWord 07, but they knew long before the Sept 5th event, otherwise that's just bad business.
You shouldn't compare iSuppli's costs to the money in your wallet but to other comparisons it's made. In any case, based on the numbers iSuppli spewed out last year for the 2nd gen nano's, iPods are getting cheaper to make year-over-year, even after modest improvements this year.
A 3GP file is just a renamed MP3 file. I know because my Samsung t519 does the same thing. It's also usually limited to 30 sec, but you should be able to play ringtones on your phone after you rename the file extension.
Yes, it's really that simple.
If the PS3 is what's driving the market, then Bluray is in trouble because a PS3 isn't going to be a cheap Bluray player anytime soon. If the price of entry to play Bluray discs stays at $500, then HD-DVD will win, end of story.
You have to be a government entity to claim entrapment, and that's only in criminal cases. Instead, you'd have to argue that the **AA got their evidence through illegal means, which would normally lead to the case being thrown out without prejudice.
Being affordable makes it accessible. And a PS3 doesn't count. Only the $600 version is available in stores, and that's still more expensive than the cheapest HD-DVD player.
Ohio University should just do what my university does (University of Texas as Austin), charge bandwidth per week. The "official" reason most colleges use to block P2P traffic is that it soaks up all the bandwidth available (which is actually quite true). However, that also given them a scapegoat to say "You kids are old enough to know not to break the law, we aren't going to actively deal with this".
Oh well. I'm glad I'm not at Ohio University!!:D
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MAC addresses can easily be spoofed. Get a clue, pal.
The problem is that the PS3 had the same problems the PS2 had in terms of difficulty to develop for. The big difference is that there was an incentive to develop well for the PS2 because it released first, thus having the largest userbase from the get-go and Microsoft banked well on that fact this time around. All multi-platform games designed today are for the Xbox 360 in mind first and the PS3 is an afterthought.
There will be little reason for developers to "work extra hard on PS3 games" if there's no one to buy them, and no one will buy PS3 games if the Xbox 360 version looks just as good and the system is $20-300 (Elite unit as lower bound) cheaper to boot. It's a catch-22.
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The vulnerability affects the bootloader. Apple will NEVER, EVER, EVER replace the bootloader by a user update. Any disruption while replacing the bootloader equals a truly dead iPhone. While we may have come to expect complications with our computers, cell phones are another story. If anything, we'll see an updated bootloader in new phones, but the millions already on the market will still be available to be unlocked. Though, Apple will probably have yet ANOTHER security audit so make sure the 2nd gen iPhone has no cracks for illegal activities.
Aren't we glad that: a) there's no line-item veto b) President can't make laws Even though the Constitution doesn't allow either and specifically prohibits the latter, there are still some things the President can't explicitly do (implicitly he's run amuck by breaking laws, but he still can't make them thankfully).
It's designed so that no browser as 100% because they ALL have work to do in complying with the latest standards out there for web development. Specifically however, the Acid tests are a bitch because they test purposefully incorrectly written code and expect a certain "defined" result. Then again, standards are standards.
I'd say that the latest Safari nightly is favored pretty heavily coming in at 90/100.
With the amount of time those data packets are in the air, I'd prefer mobile broadband be only for when you are actually mobile. Plus, for the heavy downloader and gamer, they already know the answer to that question.
*it's no btw*
Caps are one thing, but soon they may start charging for bandwidth by the megabyte. Downloading a patch for Windows would then actually COST you money.
Because bittorrent lets me watch it when and where I want while sticking it to the man!
Very true. When you get outside major cities with a low density of towers, then it's a lot harder to determine exactly where you are. You could never really use it for turn-by-turn navigation in a car. However, for people on the go outside of their car, it doesn't matter as much. Probably still the best thing the MyLocation feature offers is a very fast way to pinpoint where you might be on a map without typing it in. Incredibly useful in places where you are lost but there are lots of signs. Pretty easy to determine where you are on a map the figure it out from there. Hope fore a 1.1.3 unlock soon. 1.1.2 wasn't worth upgrading to, so I'm still on 1.1.1.
Math by itself is not useful unless you just like adding numbers. It's only by actually having an applied purpose that you'll need it (physics, economics, chemistry).
The idea of a rebate is to make it somewhat difficult for most people to use it (or just forget about it completely), otherwise stores would just drop the price automatically. I mean, realistically, it's the same price right? But of course, it's not, and mail-in rebates are sucker's way to get people to buy items hoping to get money back (and they may never get it back)
If the iPhone is a closed platform, then technically there should only be one state the SOFTWARE should be in and Apple should check for that, otherwise refuse to update. We'd understand if we were modifying hardware and the phone bricked (and it would probably a hardware bricking with no chance of recovery), but if people are able to downgrade their phone to previous versions, then I think Apple should be obligated to provide such a feature, otherwise they KNOW that new firmware revisions can cause problems and are technically doing nothing to solve the problem. That's the equivalent of malicious intent. Same idea as knowing someone is going to commit murder and sitting on your ass about it. You are liable too if you did nothing to stop it.
Because usually when stuff is "bricked", it can't be turned on at all. Hardware-wise, it is broken. However, in the iPhone's case, it's is CLEARLY software that is causing the phone not to work. If Apple was forced to "unlock" re-locked phones tomorrow or pay hefty fines, they easily could. And that's what I call malicious intent. The hardware isn't causing vendor lock-in, but the software running on that hardware. Very easy to tell by the fact that people can downgrade their firmware and get hardware-wise, a fully functional phone. I guess the correct term is "lame duck", not "bricked" because it can easily be restored if Apple were forced to do so.
It would be different if they had checked to see if the phone was in a "normal", expected state before doing the update, but I find silly warnings as negligence. If Apple knows that applying the update WILL brick an unlocked phone and they are doing nothing about it, that right there is where malice comes in. When updating BIOS firmware, computer manufacturers always build in safe-guards to protect people from flashing the wrong firmware. What's the difference between than and this? Again, I'd like to see this stopped to prevent a slippery-slope from happening in the future.
Yep. Simplest answer is always best. I don't see why people would have thought that the 8GB iPhone would have sold when the 16GB iPod Touch does just about all the important features the phone has. People would be wondering why they are spending $300 to be locked into a contract! The price HAD to drop as soon as we new the 16GB iPod Touch was going to be sold for $399. It would have made no sense otherwise. Now, if people REALLY want to be mad, it should be that Apple KNEW they were going to drop the price before they launched the iPhone. Maybe it wasn't right at MacWord 07, but they knew long before the Sept 5th event, otherwise that's just bad business.
You shouldn't compare iSuppli's costs to the money in your wallet but to other comparisons it's made. In any case, based on the numbers iSuppli spewed out last year for the 2nd gen nano's, iPods are getting cheaper to make year-over-year, even after modest improvements this year.
A 3GP file is just a renamed MP3 file. I know because my Samsung t519 does the same thing. It's also usually limited to 30 sec, but you should be able to play ringtones on your phone after you rename the file extension. Yes, it's really that simple.
Too bad it doesn't come with car insurance. There's no way the guy will be able to afford the premium on a 350Z.
If the PS3 is what's driving the market, then Bluray is in trouble because a PS3 isn't going to be a cheap Bluray player anytime soon. If the price of entry to play Bluray discs stays at $500, then HD-DVD will win, end of story.
Anyone know what the estimated GDP for the WoW economy is? I bet it's more than some poor countries!
You have to be a government entity to claim entrapment, and that's only in criminal cases. Instead, you'd have to argue that the **AA got their evidence through illegal means, which would normally lead to the case being thrown out without prejudice.
Storing entire TV shows and movies in HD. At 30-50GB per movie, people with large collections could fill up that space pretty quickly.
Being affordable makes it accessible. And a PS3 doesn't count. Only the $600 version is available in stores, and that's still more expensive than the cheapest HD-DVD player.
Ohio University should just do what my university does (University of Texas as Austin), charge bandwidth per week. The "official" reason most colleges use to block P2P traffic is that it soaks up all the bandwidth available (which is actually quite true). However, that also given them a scapegoat to say "You kids are old enough to know not to break the law, we aren't going to actively deal with this". Oh well. I'm glad I'm not at Ohio University!! :D
LONGHORNS 4 LIFE
MAC addresses can easily be spoofed. Get a clue, pal.
The problem is that the PS3 had the same problems the PS2 had in terms of difficulty to develop for. The big difference is that there was an incentive to develop well for the PS2 because it released first, thus having the largest userbase from the get-go and Microsoft banked well on that fact this time around. All multi-platform games designed today are for the Xbox 360 in mind first and the PS3 is an afterthought. There will be little reason for developers to "work extra hard on PS3 games" if there's no one to buy them, and no one will buy PS3 games if the Xbox 360 version looks just as good and the system is $20-300 (Elite unit as lower bound) cheaper to boot. It's a catch-22.