Lack of tethering is not Apple's fault. It works here very nicely, without any tricks or hacks.
I don't use a lot of apps (or games) - but the ability to choose e.g. between several different weather-apps is very comforting.
The iPhone is really the ultimate phone IMO - you can make it look and behave exactly as you want (within it's very wide limits). At least, it's a progress in comparison to exchangeable covers, custom ringtones and background-images.
One "simple" solution would be for the browser to remember which certificate or CA that a page uses, and put up a warning if it ever changed (within the validation period). A warning if the site all of the sudden went http would perhaps also be a good idea.
Yes, people ignore warnings, but it would at least help us in the know.
Or somebody who read the tweet reported it. In fact, from the Telegraph areticle (linked from the RA), police acted on "a tip-off from a member of the public".
This can mean a lot. In my book, it could also mean that some sort of data-mining bot had found the tweet and flagged it for review. Crediting a "member of the public" is an easy ruse to divert attention away from intelligence services (MIx, GCHQ).
Animals usually have a shorter life-span and breed more generations in a shorter time than humans. Thus, their gene-pool throws-out the cancer-ridden "evolutionary errors" much quicker. I guess we could do simliar if
- we completely abolished birth-control
- helped natural selection by denying medical supply to the sick (whatever their age)
Buy an unlocked iPhone (from Europe, if you have no other source - I suppose they also work in the US. Some countries in Europe mandate the sale of unlocked phones). IIRC, if you write the App yourself, you can put it on your own iPhone without Apple's approval.
...they were going to discuss about the problem with "real" piracy. If anything, this should encourage the pirates operating in the Arabian sea near Somalia: unless they start bootlegging songs and movies, they should be relatively save and Uncle Sam will not go after them. At least not in a big, coordinated way. In essence, they, the ship-wrecking, people-killing pirates are a mere nuisance, while copyright-violating pirates mean the end of civilization is near.
Or maybe it's just another episode of "Politicians, lobbyist and the low-hanging fruit - how I learned to ignore the big problems while creating and appearing to solve small and irrelevant ones myself".
Google for "The problem with Lithium". I think, in a couple of years, Apple alone could deplete the world's Li-supply. Just from iPhones/iPods and MacBooks. And that's without a 100 million cars with fat batteries.
Germany? They still actually manufacture high-quality industrial and engineering bits! Amazing! Try and build a VW CC or an Audi R6 in the states - or France, for that matter....
I read that in my home-state of Baden-Würtemberg (South Germany) more machines are manufactured than in the whole USA. I don't know if that is true. But if it is true, USA is in deep shit IMO.
It also doesn't happen a lot here in Switzerland, where all the adult male natives have assault riffles and ammunition at home (in case the country gets invaded). If the society is shit, banning guns is useless. Just ask the stabbed teenagers in the UK. That said, I don't really want to own a weapon (other than my exquisite collection of kitchen knives). Most of the problems the western world has (drugs, violence) are only symptoms of the decay of a society that has no direction, no leadership, no common consensus, no purpose other than monetary gains. While societies need regulation, laws, the sheer existence of laws (and even strict enforcement) doesn't automatically make those societies safer per-se. Politicians want to make us believe the opposite, though.
This is true, but I guess Apple doesn't offer a refund in the EULA. Is it just an urban legend that the EULA states that basically Windows can be given back for a refund? Apple will surely not make that mistake. If Lenovo would have wanted to sell their laptops as "systems" they would have had to ask MSFT for a Windows OEM version without that specific clause. Than, such a complaint as PHKs would be much more difficult to make in the first place. I'm sure that's all legal somehow - but I'm equally sure it's not legal to declare one thing somewhere in a "contract" and later on say "oh, you know, we didn't really mean it to work like that". PHK probably *did* print out the EULA and gave it to his lawyer before going to court with it. Something I doubt anybody from Lenovo has actually done.
The flight-controller on the ground ordered the pilot to do that. One plane was a cargo-plane, the other was a Bashkirian-Airlines flight full of children heading home from a holiday sponsored by local people. An absolute tragedy. Later-on, the father of one of the children murdered that flight-controller and went to jail for a couple of years in Switzerland. Recently (last year), he was promoted to the position of Minister of Construction in his home-country Ossetia.
I think we read different articles. He's not saying he didn't plan well enough, he's saying that Intel and AMD promise that Gen Y processor is 35% faster than Gen X processor, and he's not seeing anywhere near 35% in real world performance.
So his fault is that he actually believed a vendor. Does he also belief in the tooth-fairy?
No. We could have bombed any German city with a single bomb, and they would have capitulated, just like Japan did.
History shows that you would have had to kill Hitler before a capitulation would have taken place. Described pretty well in this film: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downfall_(film) (This is actually a very interesting film, if you're interested in history)
But I completely agree that Germany would have more radioactive pits now than White Sands if it hadn't been defeated by May 1945.
You forget one thing (and this - being German - is where I'm glad that things went the way they went): the US had several thousand people working on the A-bomb. There is no doubt that its primary target was Berlin - and only the initially slow progress and the fast defeat at the end made its use there unnecessary. Had Germany not been defeated by May 1945, later that year in August we might have seen Berlin, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Munich, and the area around the "steel-belt" being turned into smoldering, radioactive ash-trays. That is the way things would have turned out. Nothing else.
Some of the (Jewish) scientists working on project Manhattan consequently refused to continue to work on the project at first, after they learned that Hitler was dead and Germany defeated. But the bomb had already taken a life on its own....
Do you talk in stock symbols to make yourself look smart? Or did you really not realize that using "Apple", "Google", and "MS" would have used only 1 more character than what you did, would have been much more readable, and would have made you look like far less of a tool? (And that completely ignores your effort on the shift or caps lock key.)
I'm sorry if I offended you. Sorry for the typo in "interesting". I only talk in stock-symbols if I happen to know them. I call MSFT MSFT because some people don't like it to be called M$.;-)
In some ways, yes. But Google has a much wider audience than Apple (which is a niche, though a spacious and comfortable one by now) Apple, is bigger as a company, but Google is really (in more ways than I like) *the internet*. Ironic, that if MSFT had started opening up their protocols a couple of years earlier, they would probably be in a much better position than they are now. Maybe it's too little too late, maybe not. History (and the stock-market) will tell;-)
OTOH, after AAPL licensing it, they would look stupid if they refused GOOG. And with this step, it *is* the de-facto standard. Intersting thought, that the only thing being left of MSFT in a couple of years is a protocol to sync wireless clients to a server...
As others have suggested: once you have Windoze-clients, you can't just replace AD. You need it. With RHE-IPA, you can (AFAIK) sync the kerberos-part of the two, so you have common passwords (which is all what matters for non-Windoze AD-clients). The only way to replace AD and continue using Windoze clients is to get rid of Exchange and use something else and replace the desktop-management-stuff also with something else (Novell comes to mind). However, you will not save money or work/effort...
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Lack of tethering is not Apple's fault.
It works here very nicely, without any tricks or hacks.
I don't use a lot of apps (or games) - but the ability to choose e.g. between several different weather-apps is very comforting.
The iPhone is really the ultimate phone IMO - you can make it look and behave exactly as you want (within it's very wide limits).
At least, it's a progress in comparison to exchangeable covers, custom ringtones and background-images.
One "simple" solution would be for the browser to remember which certificate or CA that a page uses, and put up a warning if it ever changed (within the validation period). A warning if the site all of the sudden went http would perhaps also be a good idea.
Yes, people ignore warnings, but it would at least help us in the know.
Well, Firefox is open source...
Or somebody who read the tweet reported it. In fact, from the Telegraph areticle (linked from the RA), police acted on "a tip-off from a member of the public".
This can mean a lot. In my book, it could also mean that some sort of data-mining bot had found the tweet and flagged it for review.
Crediting a "member of the public" is an easy ruse to divert attention away from intelligence services (MIx, GCHQ).
Animals usually have a shorter life-span and breed more generations in a shorter time than humans.
Thus, their gene-pool throws-out the cancer-ridden "evolutionary errors" much quicker.
I guess we could do simliar if
- we completely abolished birth-control
- helped natural selection by denying medical supply to the sick (whatever their age)
Buy an unlocked iPhone (from Europe, if you have no other source - I suppose they also work in the US. Some countries in Europe mandate the sale of unlocked phones).
IIRC, if you write the App yourself, you can put it on your own iPhone without Apple's approval.
...they were going to discuss about the problem with "real" piracy.
If anything, this should encourage the pirates operating in the Arabian sea near Somalia: unless they start bootlegging songs and movies, they should be relatively save and Uncle Sam will not go after them.
At least not in a big, coordinated way.
In essence, they, the ship-wrecking, people-killing pirates are a mere nuisance, while copyright-violating pirates mean the end of civilization is near.
Or maybe it's just another episode of "Politicians, lobbyist and the low-hanging fruit - how I learned to ignore the big problems while creating and appearing to solve small and irrelevant ones myself".
What other shopping card do you recommend then?
Google for "The problem with Lithium".
I think, in a couple of years, Apple alone could deplete the world's Li-supply. Just from iPhones/iPods and MacBooks.
And that's without a 100 million cars with fat batteries.
Pictures or it didn't happen.
Germany? They still actually manufacture high-quality industrial and engineering bits! Amazing! Try and build a VW CC or an Audi R6 in the states - or France, for that matter....
I read that in my home-state of Baden-Würtemberg (South Germany) more machines are manufactured than in the whole USA.
I don't know if that is true. But if it is true, USA is in deep shit IMO.
while VLC seems doomed to be forever rough around the edges (despite being otherwise fantastic)
Hey, don't discredit VLC. ;-)
Even my mother could use VLC (on Mac) to play a DVD, after I explained it to her via phone/email.
So it can't be that bad
I didn't actually think of the USA.
For most cases, what you accuse France of (lack of social permeability), is also true for the US.
BTW: Over 20% of Switzerland's inhabitants are foreigners.
It also doesn't happen a lot here in Switzerland, where all the adult male natives have assault riffles and ammunition at home (in case the country gets invaded).
If the society is shit, banning guns is useless. Just ask the stabbed teenagers in the UK.
That said, I don't really want to own a weapon (other than my exquisite collection of kitchen knives).
Most of the problems the western world has (drugs, violence) are only symptoms of the decay of a society that has no direction, no leadership, no common consensus, no purpose other than monetary gains.
While societies need regulation, laws, the sheer existence of laws (and even strict enforcement) doesn't automatically make those societies safer per-se.
Politicians want to make us believe the opposite, though.
This is true, but I guess Apple doesn't offer a refund in the EULA.
Is it just an urban legend that the EULA states that basically Windows can be given back for a refund?
Apple will surely not make that mistake.
If Lenovo would have wanted to sell their laptops as "systems" they would have had to ask MSFT for a Windows OEM version without that specific clause. Than, such a complaint as PHKs would be much more difficult to make in the first place.
I'm sure that's all legal somehow - but I'm equally sure it's not legal to declare one thing somewhere in a "contract" and later on say "oh, you know, we didn't really mean it to work like that".
PHK probably *did* print out the EULA and gave it to his lawyer before going to court with it. Something I doubt anybody from Lenovo has actually done.
The flight-controller on the ground ordered the pilot to do that.
One plane was a cargo-plane, the other was a Bashkirian-Airlines flight full of children heading home from a holiday sponsored by local people.
An absolute tragedy.
Later-on, the father of one of the children murdered that flight-controller and went to jail for a couple of years in Switzerland.
Recently (last year), he was promoted to the position of Minister of Construction in his home-country Ossetia.
Benchmarks comparing PCs with Windows and other OSs should be forced to run with AV-software installed - because that's the normal use-case.
Everything else silly.
I think we read different articles. He's not saying he didn't plan well enough, he's saying that Intel and AMD promise that Gen Y processor is 35% faster than Gen X processor, and he's not seeing anywhere near 35% in real world performance.
So his fault is that he actually believed a vendor.
Does he also belief in the tooth-fairy?
No. We could have bombed any German city with a single bomb, and they would have capitulated, just like Japan did.
History shows that you would have had to kill Hitler before a capitulation would have taken place.
Described pretty well in this film: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downfall_(film)
(This is actually a very interesting film, if you're interested in history)
But I completely agree that Germany would have more radioactive pits now than White Sands if it hadn't been defeated by May 1945.
You forget one thing (and this - being German - is where I'm glad that things went the way they went): the US had several thousand people working on the A-bomb.
There is no doubt that its primary target was Berlin - and only the initially slow progress and the fast defeat at the end made its use there unnecessary.
Had Germany not been defeated by May 1945, later that year in August we might have seen Berlin, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Munich, and the area around the "steel-belt" being turned into smoldering, radioactive ash-trays.
That is the way things would have turned out. Nothing else.
Some of the (Jewish) scientists working on project Manhattan consequently refused to continue to work on the project at first, after they learned that Hitler was dead and Germany defeated.
But the bomb had already taken a life on its own....
Your boss isn't going to show up at your deathbed.
Not so quick! ;-)
Only, if you document too much and hand over the passwords too early
Do you talk in stock symbols to make yourself look smart? Or did you really not realize that using "Apple", "Google", and "MS" would have used only 1 more character than what you did, would have been much more readable, and would have made you look like far less of a tool? (And that completely ignores your effort on the shift or caps lock key.)
I'm sorry if I offended you. ;-)
Sorry for the typo in "interesting". I only talk in stock-symbols if I happen to know them.
I call MSFT MSFT because some people don't like it to be called M$.
In some ways, yes. ;-)
But Google has a much wider audience than Apple (which is a niche, though a spacious and comfortable one by now)
Apple, is bigger as a company, but Google is really (in more ways than I like) *the internet*.
Ironic, that if MSFT had started opening up their protocols a couple of years earlier, they would probably be in a much better position than they are now.
Maybe it's too little too late, maybe not.
History (and the stock-market) will tell
OTOH, after AAPL licensing it, they would look stupid if they refused GOOG.
And with this step, it *is* the de-facto standard.
Intersting thought, that the only thing being left of MSFT in a couple of years is a protocol to sync wireless clients to a server...
http://www.freeipa.org/
As others have suggested: once you have Windoze-clients, you can't just replace AD. You need it.
With RHE-IPA, you can (AFAIK) sync the kerberos-part of the two, so you have common passwords (which is all what matters for non-Windoze AD-clients).
The only way to replace AD and continue using Windoze clients is to get rid of Exchange and use something else and replace the desktop-management-stuff also with something else (Novell comes to mind).
However, you will not save money or work/effort...
...that it's not a hoax.
Worked last time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOo6aHSY8hU&NR=1
Sort-of.