How shortsighted. Everyone knows the next generation's music sounds terrible. If you throw away the terrible pieces, you are throwing away your chance to make money off your kids.
the app store never reveals credit card information. if you know a user's log in and password, you can make app store and itunes purchases from any device. you can't, however, get their credit card.
unfortunately it's trivially easy to get the login information. All a developer has to do is make an app that asks for credentials. It can be very legit so as to make it through apple's approval process. Really, all apple cares about is if the app is reasonably stable, doesn't duplicate their functionality, and isn't using private api's. Maybe you have a high score system, or simply say the user needs an account to read the book in the app. Hell, you could probably just make an app with 2 text fields for username and password that does nothing and apple will approve it. You will probably end up with a database where > 50% of the username / password combos are actually appleIds and passwords ready to buy stuff on the app store.
i'm not sure what apple can do to combat this social engineering. i don't use my appleId within apps or any other login really. It would be nice however if i could whitelist some deviceid's that i say can make purchases from my account. maybe make that hardware identifier work for me for a change.
A quaternion tattoo? The dude is going to look like such a poser! A REAL lover of quaternions would have them carved into their flesh with a pen knife. preferably the carving would be done under a bridge.
I agree completely. I don't understand the hunger for multitasking. Most people that I know go to great lengths to ensure their desktops aren't running any background software. Yet we want our puny little phones to run everything simultaneously?
Agreed. Baseball has to be one of the most boring sports ever. The announcer will often discuss bratwurst at greater length than the game.
I'm from Milwaukee and I grew up listening to bob ueker, truly one of the all time great announcers. I swear, only 10% of everything he's said was actually describing the game.
99.9% of desktop apps can do whatever they want. They can read your emails. They can determine how much seti data you've processed. they can find out everything you type. They can capture video of your desktop and stream it to africa.
People want their phones to be computers. You are taking no more or less risk with a phone than you do with a computer. The app market is ripe for social engineering attacks right now, but i highly doubt there is more risk than on the desktop.
People are complaining that someone has access to contacts and emails, but people are also scrambling to give all that information to google through gmail, voice, and wave.
my wife and i use it to plan vacations. It's a fairly convenient form of self documenting communication. We can discuss things we want to see, places we want to go, etc. I can highlight where our stops will be on the map, and she can pick out stuff around there to do. All of it is stored for later reference.
We could, of course, communicate these ideas by email, chat, im, and text message, but then it wouldn't be all in one place. Honestly we found using wave produces a pretty coherent plan for us.
maybe a better practice would be to store a thumbnail size image of the screenshot. Then you would gain 2 things. You wouldn't be taking up as much space. You would probably be saving it in an illegible form (barring any CSI style investigation). You would recognize the thumbnail, but couldn't actually read words like ssn, password, or credit card numbers.
That's a good point. It's hard to sell support when you are providing:
a good stable product
all the inner workings of the product
all the tools required to support the product
to make matters worse, your customers are predisposed to being the kind of person who will roll up their sleeves and support the product themselves.
to use a car analogy, it's like red hat is giving away cars hoping to make money on service, but the car comes with a shop and all the tools needed to do anything to it, and all your customers are mechanics.
i'm surprised they can make any money at all.
RedHat should
i reckon at&t is losing exclusivity around january 2011. At least that would be one interpretation of why they would allow people who weren't otherwise eligible for an upgrade to get an iphone4 now. They certainly wouldn't want people to finish their contract and have the option of going to verizon for iphone4. Better to lock them in now while they still can.
Imagine the loss due to the number of people who never purchased OR pirated the games. Imagine how much income is lost to the game industry due to lack of game consoles and iphones in developing countries! Imagine how much money has been lost because we haven't found a way to sell game consoles to polar bears!
Our planet's economy is practically BLEEDING money because alien civilizations never buy ANYTHING from us!
North Korea has spent a lot of money on computer graphics to make a cyber Dear Lead
Ever wondered what kind of damage cyberwarfare could do? Sounds like the North Koreans would have A LOT more to lose from a cyberassassination than the Russians.
what i'd like to know is what damage would attacking the power grid really do? we have power outages all the time already. Most really important systems have their own redundant power supplies.
people have survived relentless bombing of their cities and that didn't destroy their society or will to fight. i doubt turning someone's lights off is going to be very devastating.
Being the leader is only part of the leadership equation. The leader also needs followers for the team to work. Learning to recognize good leadership and cooperate with that leader is a good lesson. Learning to pick the right leader is probably far more valuable for everyone than just learning to be the leader.
Could also be that the laptop market is killing the video card market. I don't get a choice beyond nvidia or ati when speccing out a laptop. I haven't bought a brand name video card in 8 years because all I've been getting are laptops.
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didn't sarah connor live with him?
How shortsighted. Everyone knows the next generation's music sounds terrible. If you throw away the terrible pieces, you are throwing away your chance to make money off your kids.
the app store never reveals credit card information. if you know a user's log in and password, you can make app store and itunes purchases from any device. you can't, however, get their credit card.
unfortunately it's trivially easy to get the login information. All a developer has to do is make an app that asks for credentials. It can be very legit so as to make it through apple's approval process. Really, all apple cares about is if the app is reasonably stable, doesn't duplicate their functionality, and isn't using private api's. Maybe you have a high score system, or simply say the user needs an account to read the book in the app. Hell, you could probably just make an app with 2 text fields for username and password that does nothing and apple will approve it. You will probably end up with a database where > 50% of the username / password combos are actually appleIds and passwords ready to buy stuff on the app store.
i'm not sure what apple can do to combat this social engineering. i don't use my appleId within apps or any other login really. It would be nice however if i could whitelist some deviceid's that i say can make purchases from my account. maybe make that hardware identifier work for me for a change.
A quaternion tattoo? The dude is going to look like such a poser! A REAL lover of quaternions would have them carved into their flesh with a pen knife. preferably the carving would be done under a bridge.
I agree completely. I don't understand the hunger for multitasking. Most people that I know go to great lengths to ensure their desktops aren't running any background software. Yet we want our puny little phones to run everything simultaneously?
Agreed. Baseball has to be one of the most boring sports ever. The announcer will often discuss bratwurst at greater length than the game.
I'm from Milwaukee and I grew up listening to bob ueker, truly one of the all time great announcers. I swear, only 10% of everything he's said was actually describing the game.
They also started to realize polycount != fun.
Just because the chip is 1.1 compatible doesn't mean it can't have it's own shader extensions. it's shader support is likely not 2.0 compliant.
99.9% of desktop apps can do whatever they want. They can read your emails. They can determine how much seti data you've processed. they can find out everything you type. They can capture video of your desktop and stream it to africa.
People want their phones to be computers. You are taking no more or less risk with a phone than you do with a computer. The app market is ripe for social engineering attacks right now, but i highly doubt there is more risk than on the desktop.
People are complaining that someone has access to contacts and emails, but people are also scrambling to give all that information to google through gmail, voice, and wave.
my wife and i use it to plan vacations. It's a fairly convenient form of self documenting communication. We can discuss things we want to see, places we want to go, etc. I can highlight where our stops will be on the map, and she can pick out stuff around there to do. All of it is stored for later reference.
We could, of course, communicate these ideas by email, chat, im, and text message, but then it wouldn't be all in one place. Honestly we found using wave produces a pretty coherent plan for us.
maybe a better practice would be to store a thumbnail size image of the screenshot. Then you would gain 2 things. You wouldn't be taking up as much space. You would probably be saving it in an illegible form (barring any CSI style investigation). You would recognize the thumbnail, but couldn't actually read words like ssn, password, or credit card numbers.
oh, and maybe delete them with a reset.
Obviously, you want to multitask. That's what people want to do with phones, multitasking.
to make matters worse, your customers are predisposed to being the kind of person who will roll up their sleeves and support the product themselves.
to use a car analogy, it's like red hat is giving away cars hoping to make money on service, but the car comes with a shop and all the tools needed to do anything to it, and all your customers are mechanics.
i'm surprised they can make any money at all. RedHat should
there will always be people who claim to see the pixels. we will eventually ridicule and belittle them.
i reckon at&t is losing exclusivity around january 2011. At least that would be one interpretation of why they would allow people who weren't otherwise eligible for an upgrade to get an iphone4 now. They certainly wouldn't want people to finish their contract and have the option of going to verizon for iphone4. Better to lock them in now while they still can.
Imagine the loss due to the number of people who never purchased OR pirated the games. Imagine how much income is lost to the game industry due to lack of game consoles and iphones in developing countries! Imagine how much money has been lost because we haven't found a way to sell game consoles to polar bears!
Our planet's economy is practically BLEEDING money because alien civilizations never buy ANYTHING from us!
North Korea has spent a lot of money on computer graphics to make a cyber Dear Lead
Ever wondered what kind of damage cyberwarfare could do? Sounds like the North Koreans would have A LOT more to lose from a cyberassassination than the Russians.
And in a world where the Source is tainted by the dark one men who can channel are dangerous.
what i'd like to know is what damage would attacking the power grid really do? we have power outages all the time already. Most really important systems have their own redundant power supplies.
people have survived relentless bombing of their cities and that didn't destroy their society or will to fight. i doubt turning someone's lights off is going to be very devastating.
Being the leader is only part of the leadership equation. The leader also needs followers for the team to work. Learning to recognize good leadership and cooperate with that leader is a good lesson. Learning to pick the right leader is probably far more valuable for everyone than just learning to be the leader.
yeah, it seems a little suspicious if the bot on your computer downloads and runs wow.
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true, but Apple makes the idea that you are getting a special Apple computer.
you could search for it.
Could also be that the laptop market is killing the video card market. I don't get a choice beyond nvidia or ati when speccing out a laptop. I haven't bought a brand name video card in 8 years because all I've been getting are laptops.