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  1. Re:I'm not that technically knowledgeable*... on Motorola's Sholes Bootloader Unlocked · · Score: 1

    The openness is in regards to what the manufacture can do with the platform.

  2. Re:Getting worse? on Motorola's Sholes Bootloader Unlocked · · Score: 1

    I believe they do. As I understand it, the hacked firmware, (without the baseband upgrader,) is also hacked to allow the older firmware. That noted... iPhone is the only smart phone in the US of whom the end user is the consumer of the manufacture. All the other smart phones are bought by carriers.

  3. Re:Disabled people on Advocacy Group For the Blind Slams Google Apps · · Score: 1

    Does he have his profile in high contrast mode? Sounds like he, or you might want to check this out; http://www.apple.com/accessibility/macosx/vision.html

  4. Re:what happened to good 'ol fashioned punishment? on Apple Moves To Stop Kids Racking Up iTunes Bills · · Score: 1

    maybe one that follows the law, even if he doesn't agree with it, because he doesn't want his kids taken away from him?

  5. Re:what happened to good 'ol fashioned punishment? on Apple Moves To Stop Kids Racking Up iTunes Bills · · Score: 1

    I would argue if your pregnant while doing hard drugs and knocking over convenience store you are not a kid.

  6. Re:what happened to good 'ol fashioned punishment? on Apple Moves To Stop Kids Racking Up iTunes Bills · · Score: 1

    your going to beat a four year old for being unable to read?

  7. Re:Two words... on UK Schools Consider Searching Pupils' Smartphones · · Score: 1

    What public did you goto that has a mainframe the school could spend 70K fixing? I went to HS between 1997 and 2000. We had the cheapest Dell desktops one could buy in 1996. They never worked.

  8. Re:No cell phones in the New York City public scho on UK Schools Consider Searching Pupils' Smartphones · · Score: 1

    What if your HP calculator is just an app on your iOS device?

  9. Re:Which government subsidization? on Ariz. Team Seeks Fossil-Fuel Cost Parity, Using Solar Energy Concentrators · · Score: 1

    your supporting document shows the tax rate to be 50 cents... not $2 per gallon.

  10. Re:Evil empires abound. on Is Apple Turning Into the Next "Evil Empire"? · · Score: 1

    I call BS -My MBA can go a whole work day on battery. I'm a RHCE, so I'm on it vast majority of an 8 hour work work day. The 2008 MBP it replaced was about 3-4 hours run time. 5 if put it into power saving settings. -Why did you call Apple about an iTunes issue? If you've ever dealt with it before you''d know there is a web form you fill out, and someone from Apple fixes it in about 20 minutes. -Even if that did really happen, Apple has the absolute best customer service ratings for every category of product they sell in every single review that has been done in the last 10 years.

  11. Re:If Microsoft suddenly did business like Apple.. on Is Apple Turning Into the Next "Evil Empire"? · · Score: 1

    Like the Zune, xbox, xbox360, or the Kin ?

  12. Re:An interesting question. on Is Apple Turning Into the Next "Evil Empire"? · · Score: 1

    Actually the "newest" 4.x for 3G works well. From 4.0 to the newest there were some major issues though. original iphone works great on 3.1.3, (the newest for it) and 3gs and 4 work great on the current.

  13. Re:Close, but... on Is Apple Turning Into the Next "Evil Empire"? · · Score: 2

    Actually, Google is very much like IBM in your example. Huge company with huge capital and business relations with everyone on the planet. Apple has FAILED on their attempts to make their own phones, and instead have focused on making an OS they give out for "free."

  14. Re:An interesting question. on Is Apple Turning Into the Next "Evil Empire"? · · Score: 2

    I think you are hugely mistaken on what their past mistakes were. Apple is great at being the best in their class. You need something to be compared TO in order to do so. Apple isn't looking for a monopoly. No one has to fail for Apple to succeed. At some point hopefully someone will ship a useful Android tablet, and Apple will have to work hard on making theirs even better. Also, in each grouping of devices, Apple is making more profit on their products then all Android products combined and Apple is currently making more profit overall then Microsoft these days....

  15. Re:Yes, but... on Is Apple Turning Into the Next "Evil Empire"? · · Score: 2

    LOL, isn't that true of absolutely any device? be able to generate some kind of traffic on the LAN, and know the password?

  16. Re:It's like being at school on Is Apple Turning Into the Next "Evil Empire"? · · Score: 1

    My your test methodology Apple would be as far from evil as you can get... They top every single customer satisfaction report ever made in the last years. The company goes out of the way to things to make the customer happy that most companies would out laugh at you for suggesting.

  17. Re:Yes and no on Is Apple Turning Into the Next "Evil Empire"? · · Score: 1

    As far as the changes in 10.7 , I thought exactly the same thing. Then I test drove 10.7 beta. Linux on the desktop died and isn't coming back.

  18. Re:Yes and no on Is Apple Turning Into the Next "Evil Empire"? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    because either your car stereo, or your MP3 player is retarded. I can any Mass Storage Device into my car's USB port and it'll play just fine. I can also plug in an ipod, or any iOS device and it'll also play fine.

  19. Re:Speed on AMD Provides Fusion Support For Coreboot · · Score: 1

    Why are they still making PCs with BIOSes?

  20. Re:non-story on Apple: You Must Be 17+ To Use Opera · · Score: 1

    because safari obeys parental controls the parents might have set-up on the device before giving it to their children. You know... that whole being a parent thing...

  21. Re:What exactly is illegal about this? on Student Sues FBI For Planting GPS Tracker · · Score: 2

    2) The car was likely in public (i.e. government property) when they did so The government can own property, which makes it private property (ie, schools.) Public property is not owned by the government. It is owned by the public, hence it's name. I think your point is that they did not need to trespass to "install" it, in which case you are probably right. Is the tracking illegal because it follows him home to his own private property? I could see this, but then the US doesn't have any laws about such things as satellite imagery that could theoretically do the same. The real world isn't CSI or 24. Satellites don't track people in real time. Satellites don't track people on demand. The most advanced stuff like they had in Resident Evil: Extinction. The satellite watches predetermined areas as it passes overhead.

  22. Re:Bandwidth for Face Time on Hands On With Apple IPad 2 · · Score: 1

    There is wonderful compression, so it highly depends on the motions, activity, and even colors in the image (people shirts, wall-paper vs solid white wall, etc... ) You can rough estimate 400 Kbps per stream. You can use the website http://www.google.com/ for fact checking that number. If you have a good WiFi implementation + decent quality bandwidth it'll work well. If not, it'll work okish.

  23. Re:Lack of flash and usb on IPad 2 33% Thinner, 2x Faster, iOS 4.3 · · Score: 1

    lol, for most people, that's a selling point.

  24. Re:But Microsoft lost a Windows trademark claim on If App Store's Trademark Is Generic, So Is Windows' · · Score: 1

    Actually they settled out of court. Microsoft bought the Lindows mark for $20 million.

  25. Re:It's still different on If App Store's Trademark Is Generic, So Is Windows' · · Score: 1

    Except, there are precedents in trademark law, such as The Paper Store and The Container Store, which back up the argument that “arguably descriptive” names can and have been trademarked.... Should they lose their marks?