This was my exact reaction, so it is not off topic. BTW a similar thing happened to Microsoft in the past, you think people would learn...
Paul McDougall says that:
The stunning claim, if true, could undermine Apple's ability to restrict third parties, such as Psystar, from selling clones that run the Mac OS on generic PC hardware.
Emphasis is mine, and while having trouble to believe this, I know, we all know, such mistakes happened and will happen again.
Bridges tend (in my case(s) anyway) to throw some organic waste material to the fan, if you are using your box connected to one Cisco that is connectod to another one -uplink side that is- thru a trunk encapsulating link. Especially is you need to change anything from defaults. But yes, when they start to work, there is nothing wrong with them.
Please keep in mind that IANAL; In Turkey we could not return opened media in the past. But after EU compatibility laws for consumer rights passed, you can return anything within 30 days. Although shops claim that digital media returns will not be accepted, if you go thru -very simple- legal complains procedure, they will roll over and play dead. I guess in any European country (member or not) customers should be able to return games and/or music to stores.
Interesting thing is that I am not an American and my political ideology, while my post was not about politics, is far left than the new President's party. I am happy that, idiots like you, who are conforming derogatory "low IQ average American" image are only a minority, according to my experience with USA citizens. This minority is unfortunately is more visible and louder than the rest of population.
I guess the whole point of article, aside from being a scarecrow, is in following part. They probably put it there, in order to hide it from/. crowd...
When Obama appoints a white house CTO, there will at least be an official figurehead in charge of this matter. Proposed candidates for the role currently include Eric Schmidt, Steve Ballmer, Jeff Bezos and Julius Genachowski from IAC.
Emphasis is mine, please be kind to your new -potentially- M$ loving uber-CTO and use only approved root kits, that utilized security holes those are already hot-fixed by people who put them there in the first place, from now on...
Dearest Sir;
Yesterday was a slow business day, so I spent some time in this discussion. If you really have this much free time at your disposal, please try to read my and IndustrialComplex's postings, in which we gave some example cases of un-requested modifications made to our software setup in iPhones by iTunes. iTunes' behavior is controlled by Apple, thus Apple is doing something to the apps already on my phone. As this issue took a repetitive tone and as I have better things to do, I just wish you well. I know your point of view will not be changed after reading this, and you might be willing to explain that solidified position. I would not be interested, and I guess un-biased readers of this subject have enough to evaluate our different positions. If you like you can go on discussing the issue by yourself.
Dear Sir:
You seem to have difficulties to understand that we as a family show free will to buy Apple products, and want to use them to their full extent of abilities. What I complain about is unnecessary difficulties, those are serving no good purpose in our interest. I do not want a hardware producer to interfere with my software usage habits and patterns. I have no intention to use illegal software on my phone, I need to be dumber than any flame baiter to use a soft component with dubious origins in a phone. However I have every right to use a piece of hardware I bought, in anyway I see fit. In short I do not need Apple to babysit my phone. Law enforcement is in the jurisdiction of related agencies. Software producers have every right to make their software as un-usable as they want. But Apple -as hardware producer- has no right to get involved with software usage. Apple has a right -for example- not to sell their operating systems, to people who did not buy their hardware, but this is in their software producer capacity.
BTW thanks for your concern, but your estimation is not on spot. As she is more of an Apple minded user, she messed my PC, then fortunately stopped before messing hers. In the meantime I intervened in order to prevent our iPhones' data got mixed and recovered *.ipa files from system and reinserted them to iTunes. The horror is not in the form of harm caused by improper desing itself, the horror is in the form of a need for an in-house system manager.
Yep, this story is getting longer an longer. Fortunately, albeit not with an ease, Apple listens customer complains. It might take some months and/or years for some problems to be solved, but they are trying to improve their user friendliness. I remember years that we were forced to carry apple talk and IP frames on the same network with lots of related design problems, an issue that got lost in time. So that due to its overall quality I am happy to carry a BSD kernel in my pocket, instead of Symbian or other similar mobile OS attempts. Unfortunately, and unbeliavably, same flexibility does not exist with an important (at least loud) portion of Apple customer base. I am an Apple user since 1986, and happy with it where it belongs, also I am an Unix user since 1993 and I prefer it in most places. You cannot solve each and every problem with the same tool. Disability to see such a simple truth in an IT oriented group of people, is not easy to understand. Strangely there used to be a similar crusader mentality in DEC VMS users. They are two unrelated cultures, with similar attitudes. Microsoft NT (descended from VMS, inherited all the problems and only some virtues...) and NT variants' user base is not this much fanatic, reasons unknown.
Nope I did not make it up, there is no need for horror stories while talking about DRM issues, thanks to real-life cases.
iTunes deletes applications from the phone and do not copy them to local applications storage, if you have not "authorized" it to work with App Store. There is not a warning big enough that draw user's attention to that issue... There must not be the need for a warning at the first place, because there is no need to delete user's software from user's phone, unless user explicitly asked for such deletions. Let me give a sample scenario -this was not our case-:
Due to some reason an iPhone user formats his/her computer relying to iPhone for carrying applications to the new incarnation of computer. S/he for some reason decides not to use App Store anymore, after all there is no logical reason to have an account on seller's outlet site for keeping usage of a program that is already paid for, which is a third party product anyway. Then at the first sync, because there is no authorization for App Store on the computer, programs get deleted.
On the other hand, same user has a Treo, which also carries paid -usually more expensive, mind you- software on it. In the same scenario, all the user has to do is plug in the phone and type username into a field.
Which product is better? I am not even getting into Apple's ability to kill applications remotely and other possible similar options...
Forget games; Have you ever tried to migrate some applications you bought on Apple's App Store thru iTunes from one computer to another. I can do it, you probably will be able to do so, but my wife with her BA degree is not prepared for such a challenge, and her solution proposal was to re-purchase some material, when I was expressing my sincere emotions about the situation. We are talking about a professional movie butcher, you know Avid and massive computers and storage in the work place...
Here, we prefer candidates who have some phone support experience, when hiring for 7/24 operations positions. From there they can switch to regular day time (means from 08:00 to 20:00 in good days) engineering/sysadmin/network_jockey jobs. In fact this is the only way in a company where I am managing the related departments.
Reasons behind phone support experience requirement are:
1) Your normal (!?) network engineer with a BS degreee lacks communications skills (that is between carbon based life forms, they can talk SMTP, HTTP, POP etc. alright...).
2) Increased resistance to frustration...
3) They can handle heavy language (King's English and international variants) easier.
4) They have experience to tell people how to perform difficult to tell operations on the phone. If it is difficult for your mother in law to reset a screen saver password, it is difficult for most (IT trained) users to line up a satellite dish after a long ESD shutdown.
Most IT related producers, prefer to have very high (higher than reasonable) prices in their GPLs, and then apply a big discount to that price when an actual customer shows up. This is useful for seller, because s/he can say, "see how much we value your business, and cut into our profit just to have you as a customer" and is also useful for buyer, because it is not easy to convince suits, that IT is something you need to spend money on and you cannot use advices from 14 years old neighborhood kids. So by claiming it was sooo expensive and you bargained a big chunk from seller, you can get the signature for backup tapes you need since last week. However as any kind of trader tends to make bigger favors to bigger customers, sellers need to keep their discount rates secret, in order to be able to keep negotiation power.
Just to keep regular IT types in the dark, some firms claim that their GPLs are trade secrets etc. but in fact that is not right. For example a big Network firm, who is obsessed with blue-green boxes and originated from San Francisco, do not give GPL to customers publicly, but their sales representatives hand out them as a very secret, job risking (!) favor. And while everybody know that their regular discount rate in my country starts at 32%, I saw some certified engineers of that company on the customer side, claiming obtaining an amazing 20% discount, thus buying equipment 17% above the market, and showing themselves as indisposable negotiators to some upper level managers, who do not know the difference (or lack of, depending on the case) between a computer and calculator...
No, he is not wasting away his life, he is trying to join dreamers who are trying to change Second Law of Thermodynamics. When he understood that unfortunately, that was just a dream, -sorry R.E.M. was on the radio:)- it will be long past the point of no return....
As somebody deciding on static IP prices for our company which is an ISP, I can tell you that the main factor taken into consideration for pricing is usually not the number of available address space, but how hard it is to route and maintain those address. If you are using a/30 segment routed thru another/30 link it means (disregarding aggregation, before somebody jumps in... aggregation also costs CPU/memory/resources/etc.) two route entries in ISP's global routing database. However if you are using a/29 segment (same size with above configuration) on a hosting machine for some purpose, it probably will be assigned to you from a/24 or/23 allocation kept on a single server, thus you are sharing a single routing entry with several (hundreds maybe) other users). Excluding exceptional items, one of the most expensive IT resources on the planet is Cisco memory space, thus static IP's towards households are more expensive than centrally utilized ones.
Also most ISPs do not want to assign static IPs to CPEs, the reason for that being, they (we I mean) do not want to make it easier for their customers to run servers in their location, which will overload more expensive CPE->ISP bandwidth, while they want you to use other people's servers (i.e. browsing web servers) which utilizes cheaper ISP->CPE bandwidth.
The dilemma is that, for me flash is the best indicator for a web site that has a suckage factor close to 1, it is unfortunate that for the bigger (like 90%+) portion of Internet users, flash means classy (flashy?) web site. This device and relatives, while being very very good for people doing field services, away from office jobs, who need a 9600,8,N,1 interface anywhere they go etc. is not very good for people who "just surf the Internet" -after 13, 14 year I still hate the verb "surfing"-. And, for those of you people who do not need to care about economics in their jobs, if you cannot sell to Internet crowd, you can forget IT crowd as well, as your company will sink before you know what hit you.
Unfortunately there are people who think a "database" is a system you throw data in, and when you ask spits it back to you, in any format its developers thinks appropriate. Oh, and it preferably have S,Q and L letters embedded in the name. Just a few days ago I was trying to convince a database programmer, that DB2's poorer than some others' SQL interface does not mean it is an inferior database, just means it is a database you should use with greater care. To such people, of course it is difficult to tell, that COBOL has very good data storage and retrieval facilities, if you know how to use them. As the current trend in new generation of programmers tends to evaluate a language depending on builtin development environment, I am afraid in the first oppurtunity we will read something like "COBOL does not have structured programming tools either."
BTW I am a C (just C, not some other C?? variant) programmer, who happen to have some COBOL interfacing experience. It always amazes me how easier to manipulate the data in COBOL side of equation than C, albeit terribly slower than C environment, which is usually one of two main reasons to establish a data interface. Other important reason is usually lack of compiler in a new hardware/OS.
The smart-ass was using his employer's data and design as baseline for his work. Taking this knowhow to home without official consent -even if from a private entity, which USAF is not- might lead to a piracy case... If TFA is complete and the guy just got away from the incident without a serious trouble, he is damn lucky. Also -I know from local experience- it is easy to forget, but USA is in a -kinda fuzzy- state of war, and the gentleman we are talking about is a military person...
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Nope, especially if you use CFC...
Paul McDougall says that:
The stunning claim, if true, could undermine Apple's ability to restrict third parties, such as Psystar, from selling clones that run the Mac OS on generic PC hardware.
Emphasis is mine, and while having trouble to believe this, I know, we all know, such mistakes happened and will happen again.
Bridges tend (in my case(s) anyway) to throw some organic waste material to the fan, if you are using your box connected to one Cisco that is connectod to another one -uplink side that is- thru a trunk encapsulating link. Especially is you need to change anything from defaults. But yes, when they start to work, there is nothing wrong with them.
Remember when ripe.net dropped out of existence due to a missing receipt, taking most of European networks' ASN filters with it???
Please keep in mind that IANAL;
In Turkey we could not return opened media in the past. But after EU compatibility laws for consumer rights passed, you can return anything within 30 days. Although shops claim that digital media returns will not be accepted, if you go thru -very simple- legal complains procedure, they will roll over and play dead. I guess in any European country (member or not) customers should be able to return games and/or music to stores.
Interesting thing is that I am not an American and my political ideology, while my post was not about politics, is far left than the new President's party. I am happy that, idiots like you, who are conforming derogatory "low IQ average American" image are only a minority, according to my experience with USA citizens. This minority is unfortunately is more visible and louder than the rest of population.
When Obama appoints a white house CTO, there will at least be an official figurehead in charge of this matter. Proposed candidates for the role currently include Eric Schmidt, Steve Ballmer, Jeff Bezos and Julius Genachowski from IAC.
Emphasis is mine, please be kind to your new -potentially- M$ loving uber-CTO and use only approved root kits, that utilized security holes those are already hot-fixed by people who put them there in the first place, from now on...
Dearest Sir;
Yesterday was a slow business day, so I spent some time in this discussion. If you really have this much free time at your disposal, please try to read my and IndustrialComplex's postings, in which we gave some example cases of un-requested modifications made to our software setup in iPhones by iTunes. iTunes' behavior is controlled by Apple, thus Apple is doing something to the apps already on my phone.
As this issue took a repetitive tone and as I have better things to do, I just wish you well. I know your point of view will not be changed after reading this, and you might be willing to explain that solidified position. I would not be interested, and I guess un-biased readers of this subject have enough to evaluate our different positions. If you like you can go on discussing the issue by yourself.
Dear Sir:
You seem to have difficulties to understand that we as a family show free will to buy Apple products, and want to use them to their full extent of abilities. What I complain about is unnecessary difficulties, those are serving no good purpose in our interest. I do not want a hardware producer to interfere with my software usage habits and patterns. I have no intention to use illegal software on my phone, I need to be dumber than any flame baiter to use a soft component with dubious origins in a phone. However I have every right to use a piece of hardware I bought, in anyway I see fit. In short I do not need Apple to babysit my phone. Law enforcement is in the jurisdiction of related agencies. Software producers have every right to make their software as un-usable as they want. But Apple -as hardware producer- has no right to get involved with software usage. Apple has a right -for example- not to sell their operating systems, to people who did not buy their hardware, but this is in their software producer capacity.
BTW thanks for your concern, but your estimation is not on spot. As she is more of an Apple minded user, she messed my PC, then fortunately stopped before messing hers. In the meantime I intervened in order to prevent our iPhones' data got mixed and recovered *.ipa files from system and reinserted them to iTunes. The horror is not in the form of harm caused by improper desing itself, the horror is in the form of a need for an in-house system manager.
Yep, this story is getting longer an longer. Fortunately, albeit not with an ease, Apple listens customer complains. It might take some months and/or years for some problems to be solved, but they are trying to improve their user friendliness. I remember years that we were forced to carry apple talk and IP frames on the same network with lots of related design problems, an issue that got lost in time. So that due to its overall quality I am happy to carry a BSD kernel in my pocket, instead of Symbian or other similar mobile OS attempts.
Unfortunately, and unbeliavably, same flexibility does not exist with an important (at least loud) portion of Apple customer base. I am an Apple user since 1986, and happy with it where it belongs, also I am an Unix user since 1993 and I prefer it in most places. You cannot solve each and every problem with the same tool. Disability to see such a simple truth in an IT oriented group of people, is not easy to understand.
Strangely there used to be a similar crusader mentality in DEC VMS users. They are two unrelated cultures, with similar attitudes. Microsoft NT (descended from VMS, inherited all the problems and only some virtues...) and NT variants' user base is not this much fanatic, reasons unknown.
Nope I did not make it up, there is no need for horror stories while talking about DRM issues, thanks to real-life cases.
iTunes deletes applications from the phone and do not copy them to local applications storage, if you have not "authorized" it to work with App Store. There is not a warning big enough that draw user's attention to that issue... There must not be the need for a warning at the first place, because there is no need to delete user's software from user's phone, unless user explicitly asked for such deletions. Let me give a sample scenario -this was not our case-:
Due to some reason an iPhone user formats his/her computer relying to iPhone for carrying applications to the new incarnation of computer. S/he for some reason decides not to use App Store anymore, after all there is no logical reason to have an account on seller's outlet site for keeping usage of a program that is already paid for, which is a third party product anyway. Then at the first sync, because there is no authorization for App Store on the computer, programs get deleted.
On the other hand, same user has a Treo, which also carries paid -usually more expensive, mind you- software on it. In the same scenario, all the user has to do is plug in the phone and type username into a field.
Which product is better? I am not even getting into Apple's ability to kill applications remotely and other possible similar options...
Forget games; Have you ever tried to migrate some applications you bought on Apple's App Store thru iTunes from one computer to another. I can do it, you probably will be able to do so, but my wife with her BA degree is not prepared for such a challenge, and her solution proposal was to re-purchase some material, when I was expressing my sincere emotions about the situation. We are talking about a professional movie butcher, you know Avid and massive computers and storage in the work place...
Here, we prefer candidates who have some phone support experience, when hiring for 7/24 operations positions. From there they can switch to regular day time (means from 08:00 to 20:00 in good days) engineering/sysadmin/network_jockey jobs. In fact this is the only way in a company where I am managing the related departments.
Reasons behind phone support experience requirement are:
1) Your normal (!?) network engineer with a BS degreee lacks communications skills (that is between carbon based life forms, they can talk SMTP, HTTP, POP etc. alright...).
2) Increased resistance to frustration...
3) They can handle heavy language (King's English and international variants) easier.
4) They have experience to tell people how to perform difficult to tell operations on the phone. If it is difficult for your mother in law to reset a screen saver password, it is difficult for most (IT trained) users to line up a satellite dish after a long ESD shutdown.
Most IT related producers, prefer to have very high (higher than reasonable) prices in their GPLs, and then apply a big discount to that price when an actual customer shows up. This is useful for seller, because s/he can say, "see how much we value your business, and cut into our profit just to have you as a customer" and is also useful for buyer, because it is not easy to convince suits, that IT is something you need to spend money on and you cannot use advices from 14 years old neighborhood kids. So by claiming it was sooo expensive and you bargained a big chunk from seller, you can get the signature for backup tapes you need since last week. However as any kind of trader tends to make bigger favors to bigger customers, sellers need to keep their discount rates secret, in order to be able to keep negotiation power.
Just to keep regular IT types in the dark, some firms claim that their GPLs are trade secrets etc. but in fact that is not right. For example a big Network firm, who is obsessed with blue-green boxes and originated from San Francisco, do not give GPL to customers publicly, but their sales representatives hand out them as a very secret, job risking (!) favor. And while everybody know that their regular discount rate in my country starts at 32%, I saw some certified engineers of that company on the customer side, claiming obtaining an amazing 20% discount, thus buying equipment 17% above the market, and showing themselves as indisposable negotiators to some upper level managers, who do not know the difference (or lack of, depending on the case) between a computer and calculator...
Do you mean, there would be countless people, who want to share the joy of Chinese People's Internet experience?
If McCain campaign needs votes from /. it is over...
No, he is not wasting away his life, he is trying to join dreamers who are trying to change Second Law of Thermodynamics. When he understood that unfortunately, that was just a dream, -sorry R.E.M. was on the radio :)- it will be long past the point of no return....
As somebody deciding on static IP prices for our company which is an ISP, I can tell you that the main factor taken into consideration for pricing is usually not the number of available address space, but how hard it is to route and maintain those address. If you are using a /30 segment routed thru another /30 link it means (disregarding aggregation, before somebody jumps in... aggregation also costs CPU/memory/resources/etc.) two route entries in ISP's global routing database. However if you are using a /29 segment (same size with above configuration) on a hosting machine for some purpose, it probably will be assigned to you from a /24 or /23 allocation kept on a single server, thus you are sharing a single routing entry with several (hundreds maybe) other users). Excluding exceptional items, one of the most expensive IT resources on the planet is Cisco memory space, thus static IP's towards households are more expensive than centrally utilized ones.
Also most ISPs do not want to assign static IPs to CPEs, the reason for that being, they (we I mean) do not want to make it easier for their customers to run servers in their location, which will overload more expensive CPE->ISP bandwidth, while they want you to use other people's servers (i.e. browsing web servers) which utilizes cheaper ISP->CPE bandwidth.
Are you sure you used US gallons (3.7 l), rather than UK gallons (4.5 l)?
That is why the civilized world is using metric system for some time.
The dilemma is that, for me flash is the best indicator for a web site that has a suckage factor close to 1, it is unfortunate that for the bigger (like 90%+) portion of Internet users, flash means classy (flashy?) web site. This device and relatives, while being very very good for people doing field services, away from office jobs, who need a 9600,8,N,1 interface anywhere they go etc. is not very good for people who "just surf the Internet" -after 13, 14 year I still hate the verb "surfing"-.
And, for those of you people who do not need to care about economics in their jobs, if you cannot sell to Internet crowd, you can forget IT crowd as well, as your company will sink before you know what hit you.
You, sir, deserve to carry every kind of uber-geek badges available...
that's because marketing keeps changing history to suit their needs.
Wasn't that "The Department of Truth"?
Provided that this is still the /. that we all know, this should not be necessary, but one may never be sure about the level of truth...
BTW I am a C (just C, not some other C?? variant) programmer, who happen to have some COBOL interfacing experience. It always amazes me how easier to manipulate the data in COBOL side of equation than C, albeit terribly slower than C environment, which is usually one of two main reasons to establish a data interface. Other important reason is usually lack of compiler in a new hardware/OS.
The smart-ass was using his employer's data and design as baseline for his work. Taking this knowhow to home without official consent -even if from a private entity, which USAF is not- might lead to a piracy case... If TFA is complete and the guy just got away from the incident without a serious trouble, he is damn lucky. Also -I know from local experience- it is easy to forget, but USA is in a -kinda fuzzy- state of war, and the gentleman we are talking about is a military person...