Hmmm... Has the US dollar gone THAT low? Here, you can get the top version of Vista upgrade for $300. The home basic or whatever it is is $120. In addition, I believe that most major retailers selling computers with Windows bundled on it offered free upgrades to Vista if you purchased your computer three months before Vista was released (might have been more). Apple is cutting the cheap upgrade period at less than four weeks, and is charging its users to upgrade. Oh well... I don't use either, so doesn't matter to me.
What is speedstep exactly? Is that what makes my Ubuntu run cooler than Windows? I thought it was speedstep that was making the processor monitor change from 1.73 GHz down to 800 MHz when the CPU wasn't being fully utilized, no?
If that IS what speedstep is, then, I guess Linux is going to be on your desktop soon (although this is on a notebook, so maybe it only works on notebooks - find that doubtful though). Wireless works just fine also. No tweaking. No config. Just works. Sometimes the windows boxen mess up the router (never have trouble except when I connect a windows client, and then I end up invariably having to reboot the router).
If it can be proven that Apple deliberately went out of their way to brick modded phones, then they should be responsible for that.
If it cannot, then they have no liability to support warranty claims that result from these modifications.
But, they should still honour warranties in some cases on modded phones. i.e. if I mod my phone (I should say that I don't have an iPhone, and will not buy one, but if I did...) and the touchpad hardware breaks because a solder joint went cold, they had better honour the warranty, because this has nothing to do with the modifications.
Case in point. Please see my earlier comment. I think it shows a lack of class for a corporation to put sexually charged messages on minors. The situation in the article is to some degree worse because it was done without consent.
There is a big difference between thumb-tacking some photos on the church bulletin board and posting them on flicr under a CC license.
Absolutely, to you and I, we see this quite readily... but I would argue that many people haven't thought through the consequences of putting photos online, under a CC license or not.
I have an acquaintance who is a photographer, and took some photos of my wife and I (which were paid for). She has put them on her blog. We never signed a waiver giving her permission to do this. Someone else could easily make a fuss for doing something like this, as we at no time offered consent. We could as well, but, that it isn't a big enough deal to make a stink out of.
The point is only to say is that most people don't recognize the implications of the web and what it means.
From other threads, it seems that Virgin bears some responsibility in that it is supposed to get a subject waiver, but I think the best results that might come out of this is 'be careful what you put on the Internet'.
People put pictures of me up, and tag them on facebook. I dislike this, but I don't say anything out of fear of being labelled persnickety or difficult or whatever people might think.
The incident happened in the context of a church. The counsellor was likely a volunteer at a church youth group. He probably posted the photos on Flickr for the rest of the youth group to view, and didn't pay enough attention to the ramifications of the license. It isn't much different than somebody posting pictures on flickr of times they were hanging out with their friends. Sure, it wasn't smart on his part, but I wouldn't think it is THAT unusual.
The article says: The family of Alison Chang says Virgin Mobile grabbed the picture from Flickr, Yahoo Inc's popular photo-sharing website, and failed to credit the photographer by name. and The ad also says "Free text virgin to virgin" at the bottom.
The experience damaged Alison's reputation and exposed her to ridicule from her peers and scrutiny from people who can now Google her, the family said in the lawsuit.
"It's the tag line; it's derogatory," said Damon Chang, 27. "A lot of her church friends saw it." I think Virgin needs to be more careful how it advertises with the name that it has. The article title was "Virgin sued for using teen's photo". Taken out of context, what does that mean?
I'm not sure in the end the photographer or the teen have a lot to stand on legally, but I really think that on some level Virgin has to think more about how their use of photographs are going to affect the subjects.
I always tell them "until the fundamental security flaws of PHP and CMS in general are fixed, that crap is not getting put on a web server I am responsible for running".
Well, that's not completely true. From a Toronto District School Board website (http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/vaughanroad/studserv/gr adreq.htm): 4 English, one per grade level 1 French as a second language 3 mathematics, at least one in Grade 11 or 12 2 science 1 Canadian geography 1 Canadian history 1 arts (dance, drama, media, music, visual arts) 1 health and physical education 0.5 civics 0.5 career studies 1 of: an additional English credit
or a third language
or a social sciences and humanities credit
or an additional Canadian and world studies credit 1 of: a business studies credit
or an additional credit in health and physical education
or an additional credit in the arts 1 of: a Grade 11 or 12 science
or a credit in technological education
plus 12 optional credits and the successful completion of the Grade 10 Test of Reading and Writing, plus 40 hours of community service
You will see that the requirements are three math and three science, at the minimum. 1 of the math courses has to be upper level (11 or 12), and one of the science courses has to be upper level (11 or 12).
There is still a definite bias towards Arts and Humanities, but then reading comprehension and understanding helps everyone, while one could argue that not everybody needs upper level math (no, I'm not biased against math - I have an engineering degree from a reputable Canadian university). That being said, there is a good argument for encouraging students not to limit their options.
Here in our country when a foreigner decides to become a citizen, there is a swearing in ceremony. For some reason, people are prohibited from filming while the oath is being taken. I don't know why, it isn't important here.
While witnessing said ceremony, there was somebody next to me that made the decision to film during this part of the ceremony. Immediately following, one of the attendants (I don't know what the proper title would be) came, asked the person who had filmed to delete the footage, and watched to verify that this was being done.
This, at least to me, seems to be a much more reasonable course of action. This gets the message across that recording is not allowed, but does not make too much of a likely harmless situation. Taking something like this to court is a waste of everybody's time.
I like eMusic and their catalog. But iTunes has well over five million tracks from a tremendous number of popular artists. It's difficult, if not impossible, to make a case that eMusic has the better catalog, period. But if you cut out the big labels' cut on iTunes, you're left with 29 cents per song (using DRM numbers; it's not clear how much MORE money the labels take on the $1.29 tracks). That's basically on par with eMusic, so it works out the same for the artist. And that's fair enough... but if eMusic doesn't work on the iPhone, then what else isn't going to work? Surely if they can offer it to all the other phones, they should be able to offer it on iPhone, right? So why make a choice in music catalogs demand a certain choice in device? Why not let the customer decide what catalog they want? Surely Apple isn't afraid of competition?
wait... is this right? shouldn't you be able to download your music directly onto the iPhone without the computer? You're paying for a data package, right?
I would think that Google Docs & Spreadsheets would play a role in this as applications move from desktop to server. The less the desktop is used, the less lock-in Microsoft has.
I think the idea was that the person who modded his/her iPhone to run Python didn't see any need to fix it. Others looked at it and assumed it was broken.
Also consider that SUVs and big expensive cars are a status symbol and give the driver a feeling of power.
There may at one time have been a feeling of power of being able to render the downloaded web page quicker or have a more responsive gui, but there isn't the same benefit with today's highest end models over a lower end model.
I remember drooling over the departments at work when they got new computers and ours hadn't arrived yet. Now, there isn't much that I need to go faster. Top of the line computers are no longer a status symbol because a bigger computer isn't that impressive, and you can't tell what kind of processor a computer has by looking at the outside, and nowadays, even by using it.
See... but this is likely based on the notion that these markets will develop... so something that can only be sold for $3 today can be sold for $10 tomorrow. And, if you are talking about selling to China, you are looking at a market that is four times the size of the US market. There will likely be little demand for cheap Chinese version of Windows in the US... The idea is that the cost is in the development, not the distribution. DVDs and packaging are cheap. By selling for cheap, they still get profit, and then they have the entire world reliant on their software, which is never a bad thing if you are a business.
Wouldn't a change in elevation -> change in pressure -> change in volume? pressure, volume and temperature are the three variables you talk about in thermodynamics. The effect isn't THAT noticeable in a passenger car because the amount is comparatively small. So you wouldn't notice it driving across Colorado. But it begins to have an effect when you start talking about many many litres (or gallons, or whatever unit you want to measure in).
If someone managing 10,000 PCs (not PC's - no need for the apostrophe, OK?) consults Dell on technology matters, said manager ought to be sacked. Dell is primarily a mail order company, a front for Microsoft, and one which goes out of the way to shill for them.
Of course they don't, but that isn't what was being said. Tech managers should know their stuff.
As somebody who is pretty out of the loop but at least knows the basics (well, on a consumer level - I know more about designing than buying), I cringe when I'm in a store and I hear some tech explaining something all wrong or clearly are talking out of their A$$.
What I mean is, I might not take advice from Dell, but I am more likely to trust them to make good decisions regarding hardware etc if they seem to know what they're talking about. It is credibility for product, not credibility for advice.
For the $300 or whatever it costs for an iPod video, would it break the bank to throw in both? I would bet that many people travel around a lot WITHOUT a laptop (myself included), and this means buying another power brick anyway. How much can the things cost to produce, anyway?
a. kit is a slang term for gear. So, read, They probably weren't poor until they blew all their cash on Apple Gear.:)
b. that being said, I believe the iPod is an Apple product that requires other parts (most don't even come with a charger that can be plugged into the wall).
As well the fact that the faster the connection the more you will do with it at that connection. On a slow connection you may check your email, and lookup something. Vs. Browsing the web long time with a faster connection. So you will need to recharge in the middle of the day for normal use except for every night with normal use.
So you're arguing that EDGE is better because since it is slower you will use it less resulting in longer battery life? Really?
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Hmmm... Has the US dollar gone THAT low? Here, you can get the top version of Vista upgrade for $300. The home basic or whatever it is is $120. In addition, I believe that most major retailers selling computers with Windows bundled on it offered free upgrades to Vista if you purchased your computer three months before Vista was released (might have been more). Apple is cutting the cheap upgrade period at less than four weeks, and is charging its users to upgrade. Oh well... I don't use either, so doesn't matter to me.
What is speedstep exactly? Is that what makes my Ubuntu run cooler than Windows? I thought it was speedstep that was making the processor monitor change from 1.73 GHz down to 800 MHz when the CPU wasn't being fully utilized, no?
If that IS what speedstep is, then, I guess Linux is going to be on your desktop soon (although this is on a notebook, so maybe it only works on notebooks - find that doubtful though). Wireless works just fine also. No tweaking. No config. Just works. Sometimes the windows boxen mess up the router (never have trouble except when I connect a windows client, and then I end up invariably having to reboot the router).
Not here in Canada... it is legal for women to go topless... (and men, of course)
If it can be proven that Apple deliberately went out of their way to brick modded phones, then they should be responsible for that.
If it cannot, then they have no liability to support warranty claims that result from these modifications.
But, they should still honour warranties in some cases on modded phones. i.e. if I mod my phone (I should say that I don't have an iPhone, and will not buy one, but if I did...) and the touchpad hardware breaks because a solder joint went cold, they had better honour the warranty, because this has nothing to do with the modifications.
Case in point. Please see my earlier comment. I think it shows a lack of class for a corporation to put sexually charged messages on minors. The situation in the article is to some degree worse because it was done without consent.
I think it shows a lack of class for a corporation to show images of minors with sexually charged captions on them in advertisements.
There is a big difference between thumb-tacking some photos on the church bulletin board and posting them on flicr under a CC license.
Absolutely, to you and I, we see this quite readily... but I would argue that many people haven't thought through the consequences of putting photos online, under a CC license or not.
I have an acquaintance who is a photographer, and took some photos of my wife and I (which were paid for). She has put them on her blog. We never signed a waiver giving her permission to do this. Someone else could easily make a fuss for doing something like this, as we at no time offered consent. We could as well, but, that it isn't a big enough deal to make a stink out of.
The point is only to say is that most people don't recognize the implications of the web and what it means.
From other threads, it seems that Virgin bears some responsibility in that it is supposed to get a subject waiver, but I think the best results that might come out of this is 'be careful what you put on the Internet'.
People put pictures of me up, and tag them on facebook. I dislike this, but I don't say anything out of fear of being labelled persnickety or difficult or whatever people might think.
Who said anything about summer camp?
The incident happened in the context of a church. The counsellor was likely a volunteer at a church youth group. He probably posted the photos on Flickr for the rest of the youth group to view, and didn't pay enough attention to the ramifications of the license. It isn't much different than somebody posting pictures on flickr of times they were hanging out with their friends. Sure, it wasn't smart on his part, but I wouldn't think it is THAT unusual.
The article says:
The family of Alison Chang says Virgin Mobile grabbed the picture from Flickr, Yahoo Inc's popular photo-sharing website, and failed to credit the photographer by name.
and The ad also says "Free text virgin to virgin" at the bottom.
The experience damaged Alison's reputation and exposed her to ridicule from her peers and scrutiny from people who can now Google her, the family said in the lawsuit.
"It's the tag line; it's derogatory," said Damon Chang, 27. "A lot of her church friends saw it."
I think Virgin needs to be more careful how it advertises with the name that it has. The article title was "Virgin sued for using teen's photo". Taken out of context, what does that mean?
I'm not sure in the end the photographer or the teen have a lot to stand on legally, but I really think that on some level Virgin has to think more about how their use of photographs are going to affect the subjects.
I always tell them "until the fundamental security flaws of PHP and CMS in general are fixed, that crap is not getting put on a web server I am responsible for running".
Which security flaws are these?
Well, that's not completely true. From a Toronto District School Board website (http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/vaughanroad/studserv/gr adreq.htm):
4 English, one per grade level
1 French as a second language
3 mathematics, at least one in Grade 11 or 12
2 science
1 Canadian geography
1 Canadian history
1 arts (dance, drama, media, music, visual arts)
1 health and physical education
0.5 civics
0.5 career studies
1 of: an additional English credit
or a third language
or a social sciences and humanities credit
or an additional Canadian and world studies credit
1 of: a business studies credit
or an additional credit in health and physical education
or an additional credit in the arts
1 of: a Grade 11 or 12 science
or a credit in technological education
plus 12 optional credits and the successful completion of the Grade 10 Test of Reading and Writing,
plus 40 hours of community service
You will see that the requirements are three math and three science, at the minimum. 1 of the math courses has to be upper level (11 or 12), and one of the science courses has to be upper level (11 or 12).
There is still a definite bias towards Arts and Humanities, but then reading comprehension and understanding helps everyone, while one could argue that not everybody needs upper level math (no, I'm not biased against math - I have an engineering degree from a reputable Canadian university). That being said, there is a good argument for encouraging students not to limit their options.
Future reference, so do glasses. They can be designed to block certain wavelengths, though - hence, safety glasses, er, contacts.
Hey, they should make glasses that block out ultraviolet light to protect our eyes from the sun! You could call them... hmmm... sunglasses!
Further, he is implying that Microsoft will be less able to slant the media or buy off people than the government?
Here in our country when a foreigner decides to become a citizen, there is a swearing in ceremony. For some reason, people are prohibited from filming while the oath is being taken. I don't know why, it isn't important here.
While witnessing said ceremony, there was somebody next to me that made the decision to film during this part of the ceremony. Immediately following, one of the attendants (I don't know what the proper title would be) came, asked the person who had filmed to delete the footage, and watched to verify that this was being done.
This, at least to me, seems to be a much more reasonable course of action. This gets the message across that recording is not allowed, but does not make too much of a likely harmless situation. Taking something like this to court is a waste of everybody's time.
Even speeders get off with warnings sometimes.
oh come on... denying somebody entrance to a private establishment is EXACTLY equivalent to ushering somebody to their death!
I like eMusic and their catalog. But iTunes has well over five million tracks from a tremendous number of popular artists. It's difficult, if not impossible, to make a case that eMusic has the better catalog, period. But if you cut out the big labels' cut on iTunes, you're left with 29 cents per song (using DRM numbers; it's not clear how much MORE money the labels take on the $1.29 tracks). That's basically on par with eMusic, so it works out the same for the artist.
And that's fair enough... but if eMusic doesn't work on the iPhone, then what else isn't going to work? Surely if they can offer it to all the other phones, they should be able to offer it on iPhone, right? So why make a choice in music catalogs demand a certain choice in device? Why not let the customer decide what catalog they want? Surely Apple isn't afraid of competition?
wait... is this right? shouldn't you be able to download your music directly onto the iPhone without the computer? You're paying for a data package, right?
I would think that Google Docs & Spreadsheets would play a role in this as applications move from desktop to server. The less the desktop is used, the less lock-in Microsoft has.
I think the idea was that the person who modded his/her iPhone to run Python didn't see any need to fix it. Others looked at it and assumed it was broken.
Also consider that SUVs and big expensive cars are a status symbol and give the driver a feeling of power.
There may at one time have been a feeling of power of being able to render the downloaded web page quicker or have a more responsive gui, but there isn't the same benefit with today's highest end models over a lower end model.
I remember drooling over the departments at work when they got new computers and ours hadn't arrived yet. Now, there isn't much that I need to go faster. Top of the line computers are no longer a status symbol because a bigger computer isn't that impressive, and you can't tell what kind of processor a computer has by looking at the outside, and nowadays, even by using it.
See... but this is likely based on the notion that these markets will develop... so something that can only be sold for $3 today can be sold for $10 tomorrow. And, if you are talking about selling to China, you are looking at a market that is four times the size of the US market. There will likely be little demand for cheap Chinese version of Windows in the US... The idea is that the cost is in the development, not the distribution. DVDs and packaging are cheap. By selling for cheap, they still get profit, and then they have the entire world reliant on their software, which is never a bad thing if you are a business.
Wouldn't a change in elevation -> change in pressure -> change in volume? pressure, volume and temperature are the three variables you talk about in thermodynamics. The effect isn't THAT noticeable in a passenger car because the amount is comparatively small. So you wouldn't notice it driving across Colorado. But it begins to have an effect when you start talking about many many litres (or gallons, or whatever unit you want to measure in).
If someone managing 10,000 PCs (not PC's - no need for the apostrophe, OK?) consults Dell on technology matters, said manager ought to be sacked. Dell is primarily a mail order company, a front for Microsoft, and one which goes out of the way to shill for them.
Of course they don't, but that isn't what was being said. Tech managers should know their stuff.
As somebody who is pretty out of the loop but at least knows the basics (well, on a consumer level - I know more about designing than buying), I cringe when I'm in a store and I hear some tech explaining something all wrong or clearly are talking out of their A$$.
What I mean is, I might not take advice from Dell, but I am more likely to trust them to make good decisions regarding hardware etc if they seem to know what they're talking about. It is credibility for product, not credibility for advice.
For the $300 or whatever it costs for an iPod video, would it break the bank to throw in both? I would bet that many people travel around a lot WITHOUT a laptop (myself included), and this means buying another power brick anyway. How much can the things cost to produce, anyway?
a. kit is a slang term for gear. So, read, They probably weren't poor until they blew all their cash on Apple Gear. :)
b. that being said, I believe the iPod is an Apple product that requires other parts (most don't even come with a charger that can be plugged into the wall).
As well the fact that the faster the connection the more you will do with it at that connection. On a slow connection you may check your email, and lookup something. Vs. Browsing the web long time with a faster connection. So you will need to recharge in the middle of the day for normal use except for every night with normal use.
So you're arguing that EDGE is better because since it is slower you will use it less resulting in longer battery life? Really?