I submitted a crash once, and got a reply from an engineer at Apple. He asked about the circumstances around the bug, and together we found that it was caused by some buggy code in a third party program. They contacted the supplier of the program and later, a fix was issued. I was amazed that someone actually responded...
I applaud Jon for his words. TheRegister.com also ran a story about the Norwegian official complaining RE: Steve Job's "passing the buck" style attitude. It can be found here. You do know that DVD-Jon has a money incentive in Apple keeping the DRM, right? Don't take my word for it, read about it here Jon also flames Steve Jobs for losing his way, quoting Jobs: If you legally acquire music, you need to have the right to manage it on all other devices that you own..
Now, here's the kicker: As Johansen sees it, Jobs didn't follow through on this promise, so it's up to him to fix the system... Johansen has written [two] programs...: one that would let other companies sell copy-protected songs that play on the iPod, and another that would let other devices play iTunes songs."
Aha. If Steve makes good on his proise, and now he has a whole deal more power to actually do it, Jon's compay is fucked. Worthless.
Of course he's going to complain. Jeez.
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But Norway is in the European Economic Area. That means we have to adapt to EU regulations. In fact, Norway is one of the countries in Europ most adapted to EU regulations and laws. more than 90% of our laws have been adapted to fit inside the EU framework.
The majority did not believe the earth was flat. That was an idea of the papal church in Europe, at a given time. Galileo got so much attention not because he believed the earth was round, but because he contradicted the church. More about this on Wikipedia
I have bought some songs on iTunes Store. Now, not the ones I would like to collect, mainly Björk, but more random ones. Here's the kicker: iTunes makes those songs compatible with more players than there are DAP units in the world. How? By allowing the songs to be burned on CD. There are far more CD players in the world than DAP players, thus the iTunes files are compatible with far more players than people assume. My burned CD is pretty much guaranteed to work in a huge range of players, and you can't call them non-interoperable since they are. This goes for all other DRM schemes with same freedoms as well. Now, Blu-ray, THERE'S a limited system...
>No 3G. A killer in Europe for something at that level. I'm assuming this won't be a problem by the time of launch though, because I simply >cannot imagine anyone trying to launch a 2.5G smart phone here these days.
Well, as an owner of a 3G phone for more than a year, the absolute killer app of the phone is......killing battery time. I can count on two hands the times when 3G has been useful to me. Also, a 3G version is on the way according to Jobs.
>No video calling. Minor league problem for me and directly related to no 3G.
See above
>"First proper browser on a phone" says Jobs in the keynote. Err...no, no at all. My phone is happily running Opera, as are plenty of others.
I love Opera on my 3G phone, but it is not anything like the browser Safari on the iPhone. And it does not attempt to be, since it is made for the small screen. IPhone Safari is apparently a full-page browser on a small screen, and uses some tricks to get around that limitation. Not to mention Opera Mini, that effectively alter the pages sent to the browser.
>No user-replaceable battery. No spare batteries? Are they serious? Not a problem with an iPod, you just lose your music for a while. Annoying >but liveable. For a phone however, that's a much bigger hassle.
So? For me, a person that charges the phone when it gets low on battery, rather than carrying around spares, that is a non-issue. I had a spare battery to my Nokia 2110 in 1996, but never since. Loose batteries are much more annoying than hard replacebles. Ever since i lost a minidisc recording of a full concert due to a loose battery on my Sony MZ-R50 (The battery door unhinged when I picked it up to press "Stop" and the TOC on the minidisc was lost, also the recording) I have not seen the virtues of replacable rechargeble batteries. If you mean replaceable as in connecting to the standard dock port in the iPhone, I'll agree. But having another, main battery built in will mean that I won't lose another call due to faulty or dirty contacts again. I'd actually view it as a minus for the phone if it has a easily replaceble battery. Unless they did somethng really brilliant about the connection system, but I doubt that.
> No third-party software. Err...no. Won't fly for me. Agreed. It'll be a minus, but not a showstopper for me.
>Can't use your "iTunes music" as a ring tone. Now admittedly the source I read for this didn't make it clear if they really meant iTMS-purchased >music or just any old MP3 but either way that's pretty poor.
Meh, minor issue for me. I'm not big on having music ringtones.
>No GPS (that I'm aware of). I'm spending that amount of money, I'd like a GPS-enabled phone please. Well, then buy one. There are some out there.
> No radio. For the love of god, what is it that Apple have against radios? Even the built-in Radio function of iTunes is utterly useless. I don't >want to carry around an add-on for that, it should be built into the phone like damned near every other phone. Some people have a fetish for having their music, talkshows and other programming laid out for them. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I prefer to listen to my music, on my terms when I choose. I like my podcasts of radio shows at the time of my leisure, when I'm in the mood for them. I like my language courses in the evening, not at the whim of a radio programmers schedule.
> Fixed capacity - I can't move my own flash cards in and out of the phone. As I watched the horrid expression of a colleagues face when he lost all his pictures due to a bad SD card in his Nokia phone, I'd have to disagree. I actually went down from 15 GB storage on a former iPod to 1 GB on a Samsung player for a while. It made me more selective, but I still had room for most things important to me. I got an iPod nano 8GB for Christmas and it also grows to satisfaction.
>No video at all - not just lack of video calling but also it's unclear if that camera w
No, that would be the high school answer. China is pursuing a more serious political course now, even if they are a bit off their rocks at times. China loves capital, and understands that they will be far, far more relevant with capital than they ever were with communism. Hence, they will not be interested in having a rouge state as their neighbour. It will only be a couple of more years before China is just as big an evil capitalist as the US, in the NK eyes.
As someone mentioned in the comments belov, the joker here is North Korea, the King Taiwan, The Ace is Japan. The 4 of clubs is the US.
I foresee a joint attack from China and US. The chinese will attack from north for three weeks, drawing sufficient resources away from the DMZ before the US attack the primary artillery positions north of the DMZ, sparing approx. 1,5 million SK inhabitants.
What people are forgetting is the clear and present danger NK presents to China. NK is still stuck in a cold war with the US and SK, while China has moved on. Remember; NK lives on good will from China, and there are almost no defenses on the border to China. The DMZ is a nightmare for invading, but the north border is just to walk over. Mark my words, if there's an invasion of NK, the Chinese are on the side of the West and probably among SK soldiers. The political views of NK are a far cry from what China wants as its neighbour.
Go read From the holy mountain by W. Dalrymple and be amazed at the similarities in Islam and Christianity. Jesus (No pun intended), they even share the same saints!
This might have something to do with the extremely strict two-source policy they run. Nothing is confirmed unless witnessed by the journlist or has two confirmed sources. CNN is only one source.
I got off the phone with Swedish police, they confirm raids in the Swedish file sharing community and at least two brought in for questioning.
I talkt to the Pirate Party leader, he confirms the raid, confiscated servers (Both Pirate Parties and The Pirate Bay), saying there were 50 policemen in the raid this afternoon (14:00 Cent Eur time).
No, they didn't succeed because they were morons who thought they had a valid point in doing what they did. In real life, absoluetely nobody sympathized with them, althoug they did get the conspiracy vote after the whole thing was over. The only sad thing about the whole event is that retarded adults again places children in the way of harm.
It seemed like the character was fairly slow to turn around
sony employee aside, did you even see the WarHawk demo form Sony? I talk about lag! Jeebus! It took 0,5 seconds from movement of the Dual......uh... non-shock3 for the plane to react. It was horrible, horrible. Not hungercrisis-horrible, but botched press conference-horrible. Sony made an ass of themselves at E3 this year, and it shows in the Slashdot and Digg comments. For the first time since 1987, I'm buying a Nintendo, Not a Playstation.
Since they now are doing all coding in all XCode, from CodeWarrior with A LOT of cruft in the Photoshop code, they already are in a world of pain. It'll pass, but just now it's probably the most stress-filled office campus in the US.
I'm an Apple user, and it always struck me as odd that they are nervous about upgrades. Each time there's an update, some brave person will install it and report as to how it behaves on that specific Mac. Is it the Firewire-delete-external-harddrive-bug from many years ago that still lives on in memory? Or is it that Apple breaks things in their updates? I have a Powerbook and have not yet experienced that updates hav broken anything on it or my familys Macs. See this forum for more info...
If a reporter at the NYTimes comes into posession of information that is some company's trade secret and publishes it, is that protected under the first amendment? What about the Paducah Post?
As I understand it; it depends on what the content of the secret is. For it to be a trade secret; it has to be something (info) valuable to the company. Ergo, a company can't claim its cafeteria menu to be a trade secret as another semi-sued person claimed earlier this week. Other than that, it can't be a malicious form of activity. If it is, the journalist will most likely be protected by whistleblower acts since it is to the grater good for the society.
EFF likes to parade this case as a grand bloggers are journalists too! case, but it really isn't. If Apple case had been about dumping arsenic into the drinking water of Cupertino, I would totally have understood the retoric of the EFF. But this is a trade secret we and we are talking about an audio interface with some commercial value.
All that aside; Apple should maybe have pursued this from within. The problem is; they don't know where the leak is. That is why they are suing; to find the guy who violated his / hers contract.
My bet is on Apple in this case, and it will have no effect on the bloggers / journalism angle at all.
I have never understood this; why are they so ugly? Seriously, whenever I travel through Europe, I find the wind turbines to be a rather beautiful sight. Large white silent energy makers that rotate slowly along a hillside, what's not to like? I see tham all the time in Denmark but now increasinly in Spain as well. Northern Spain, that is. They are located on the coast and on mountain ridges, everybody there seems to like them because they stop oil and coal powerplants from being created. Combined with LPG, they seem to keep the region up to capacity with power.
Well, yes, but first you'd have to sende a software signal. This causes MacOS to pop up a dialouge asking you to sleep, cancel, log off or shut down. I would be possible to make the alarm go off at this stage. It will be silenced after five seconds, but till.
Well, it is the EU. You can get a CC in another country and log in. I used the ITMS from Norway on my Spanish CC, while the ITMS wasn't in Norway yet. When the store arrived, I just switched the CC number to my Norwegian CC, along with the address. No problems there.
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I submitted a crash once, and got a reply from an engineer at Apple. He asked about the circumstances around the bug, and together we found that it was caused by some buggy code in a third party program. They contacted the supplier of the program and later, a fix was issued. I was amazed that someone actually responded...
Now, here's the kicker: As Johansen sees it, Jobs didn't follow through on this promise, so it's up to him to fix the system... Johansen has written [two] programs...: one that would let other companies sell copy-protected songs that play on the iPod, and another that would let other devices play iTunes songs."
Aha. If Steve makes good on his proise, and now he has a whole deal more power to actually do it, Jon's compay is fucked. Worthless.
Of course he's going to complain. Jeez.
But Norway is in the European Economic Area. That means we have to adapt to EU regulations. In fact, Norway is one of the countries in Europ most adapted to EU regulations and laws. more than 90% of our laws have been adapted to fit inside the EU framework.
The majority did not believe the earth was flat. That was an idea of the papal church in Europe, at a given time. Galileo got so much attention not because he believed the earth was round, but because he contradicted the church. More about this on Wikipedia
I have bought some songs on iTunes Store. Now, not the ones I would like to collect, mainly Björk, but more random ones. Here's the kicker: iTunes makes those songs compatible with more players than there are DAP units in the world. How? By allowing the songs to be burned on CD. There are far more CD players in the world than DAP players, thus the iTunes files are compatible with far more players than people assume. My burned CD is pretty much guaranteed to work in a huge range of players, and you can't call them non-interoperable since they are. This goes for all other DRM schemes with same freedoms as well. Now, Blu-ray, THERE'S a limited system...
>No 3G. A killer in Europe for something at that level. I'm assuming this won't be a problem by the time of launch though, because I simply >cannot imagine anyone trying to launch a 2.5G smart phone here these days.
...killing battery time. I can count on two hands the times when 3G has been useful to me. Also, a 3G version is on the way according to Jobs.
Well, as an owner of a 3G phone for more than a year, the absolute killer app of the phone is...
>No video calling. Minor league problem for me and directly related to no 3G.
See above
>"First proper browser on a phone" says Jobs in the keynote. Err...no, no at all. My phone is happily running Opera, as are plenty of others.
I love Opera on my 3G phone, but it is not anything like the browser Safari on the iPhone. And it does not attempt to be, since it is made for the small screen. IPhone Safari is apparently a full-page browser on a small screen, and uses some tricks to get around that limitation. Not to mention Opera Mini, that effectively alter the pages sent to the browser.
>No user-replaceable battery. No spare batteries? Are they serious? Not a problem with an iPod, you just lose your music for a while. Annoying >but liveable. For a phone however, that's a much bigger hassle.
So? For me, a person that charges the phone when it gets low on battery, rather than carrying around spares, that is a non-issue. I had a spare battery to my Nokia 2110 in 1996, but never since. Loose batteries are much more annoying than hard replacebles. Ever since i lost a minidisc recording of a full concert due to a loose battery on my Sony MZ-R50 (The battery door unhinged when I picked it up to press "Stop" and the TOC on the minidisc was lost, also the recording) I have not seen the virtues of replacable rechargeble batteries. If you mean replaceable as in connecting to the standard dock port in the iPhone, I'll agree. But having another, main battery built in will mean that I won't lose another call due to faulty or dirty contacts again. I'd actually view it as a minus for the phone if it has a easily replaceble battery. Unless they did somethng really brilliant about the connection system, but I doubt that.
> No third-party software. Err...no. Won't fly for me.
Agreed. It'll be a minus, but not a showstopper for me.
>Can't use your "iTunes music" as a ring tone. Now admittedly the source I read for this didn't make it clear if they really meant iTMS-purchased >music or just any old MP3 but either way that's pretty poor.
Meh, minor issue for me. I'm not big on having music ringtones.
>No GPS (that I'm aware of). I'm spending that amount of money, I'd like a GPS-enabled phone please.
Well, then buy one. There are some out there.
> No radio. For the love of god, what is it that Apple have against radios? Even the built-in Radio function of iTunes is utterly useless. I don't >want to carry around an add-on for that, it should be built into the phone like damned near every other phone.
Some people have a fetish for having their music, talkshows and other programming laid out for them. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I prefer to listen to my music, on my terms when I choose. I like my podcasts of radio shows at the time of my leisure, when I'm in the mood for them. I like my language courses in the evening, not at the whim of a radio programmers schedule.
> Fixed capacity - I can't move my own flash cards in and out of the phone.
As I watched the horrid expression of a colleagues face when he lost all his pictures due to a bad SD card in his Nokia phone, I'd have to disagree. I actually went down from 15 GB storage on a former iPod to 1 GB on a Samsung player for a while. It made me more selective, but I still had room for most things important to me. I got an iPod nano 8GB for Christmas and it also grows to satisfaction.
>No video at all - not just lack of video calling but also it's unclear if that camera w
I business: Loose lips, get pink slips
No, that would be the high school answer. China is pursuing a more serious political course now, even if they are a bit off their rocks at times. China loves capital, and understands that they will be far, far more relevant with capital than they ever were with communism. Hence, they will not be interested in having a rouge state as their neighbour. It will only be a couple of more years before China is just as big an evil capitalist as the US, in the NK eyes.
As someone mentioned in the comments belov, the joker here is North Korea, the King Taiwan, The Ace is Japan. The 4 of clubs is the US.
I foresee a joint attack from China and US. The chinese will attack from north for three weeks, drawing sufficient resources away from the DMZ before the US attack the primary artillery positions north of the DMZ, sparing approx. 1,5 million SK inhabitants.
What people are forgetting is the clear and present danger NK presents to China. NK is still stuck in a cold war with the US and SK, while China has moved on. Remember; NK lives on good will from China, and there are almost no defenses on the border to China. The DMZ is a nightmare for invading, but the north border is just to walk over. Mark my words, if there's an invasion of NK, the Chinese are on the side of the West and probably among SK soldiers. The political views of NK are a far cry from what China wants as its neighbour.
Go read From the holy mountain by W. Dalrymple and be amazed at the similarities in Islam and Christianity. Jesus (No pun intended), they even share the same saints!
This might have something to do with the extremely strict two-source policy they run. Nothing is confirmed unless witnessed by the journlist or has two confirmed sources. CNN is only one source.
Zebra is cruel. But it doesn't stop the lion.
Thank you, thank you! I'll be here all week. Try the veal!
I got off the phone with Swedish police, they confirm raids in the Swedish file sharing community and at least two brought in for questioning.
I talkt to the Pirate Party leader, he confirms the raid, confiscated servers (Both Pirate Parties and The Pirate Bay), saying there were 50 policemen in the raid this afternoon (14:00 Cent Eur time).
No, they didn't succeed because they were morons who thought they had a valid point in doing what they did. In real life, absoluetely nobody sympathized with them, althoug they did get the conspiracy vote after the whole thing was over. The only sad thing about the whole event is that retarded adults again places children in the way of harm.
It seemed like the character was fairly slow to turn around
...uh... non-shock3 for the plane to react. It was horrible, horrible. Not hungercrisis-horrible, but botched press conference-horrible. Sony made an ass of themselves at E3 this year, and it shows in the Slashdot and Digg comments. For the first time since 1987, I'm buying a Nintendo, Not a Playstation.
sony employee aside, did you even see the WarHawk demo form Sony? I talk about lag! Jeebus! It took 0,5 seconds from movement of the Dual...
Since they now are doing all coding in all XCode, from CodeWarrior with A LOT of cruft in the Photoshop code, they already are in a world of pain. It'll pass, but just now it's probably the most stress-filled office campus in the US.
I'm an Apple user, and it always struck me as odd that they are nervous about upgrades. Each time there's an update, some brave person will install it and report as to how it behaves on that specific Mac. Is it the Firewire-delete-external-harddrive-bug from many years ago that still lives on in memory? Or is it that Apple breaks things in their updates? I have a Powerbook and have not yet experienced that updates hav broken anything on it or my familys Macs. See this forum for more info...
If a reporter at the NYTimes comes into posession of information that is some company's trade secret and publishes it, is that protected under the first amendment? What about the Paducah Post?
As I understand it; it depends on what the content of the secret is. For it to be a trade secret; it has to be something (info) valuable to the company. Ergo, a company can't claim its cafeteria menu to be a trade secret as another semi-sued person claimed earlier this week. Other than that, it can't be a malicious form of activity. If it is, the journalist will most likely be protected by whistleblower acts since it is to the grater good for the society.
EFF likes to parade this case as a grand bloggers are journalists too! case, but it really isn't. If Apple case had been about dumping arsenic into the drinking water of Cupertino, I would totally have understood the retoric of the EFF. But this is a trade secret we and we are talking about an audio interface with some commercial value.
All that aside; Apple should maybe have pursued this from within. The problem is; they don't know where the leak is. That is why they are suing; to find the guy who violated his / hers contract.
My bet is on Apple in this case, and it will have no effect on the bloggers / journalism angle at all.
Don't forget to:
"They'll be hideous to look at."
I have never understood this; why are they so ugly? Seriously, whenever I travel through Europe, I find the wind turbines to be a rather beautiful sight. Large white silent energy makers that rotate slowly along a hillside, what's not to like? I see tham all the time in Denmark but now increasinly in Spain as well. Northern Spain, that is. They are located on the coast and on mountain ridges, everybody there seems to like them because they stop oil and coal powerplants from being created. Combined with LPG, they seem to keep the region up to capacity with power.
Well, yes, but first you'd have to sende a software signal. This causes MacOS to pop up a dialouge asking you to sleep, cancel, log off or shut down. I would be possible to make the alarm go off at this stage. It will be silenced after five seconds, but till.
Well, it is the EU. You can get a CC in another country and log in. I used the ITMS from Norway on my Spanish CC, while the ITMS wasn't in Norway yet. When the store arrived, I just switched the CC number to my Norwegian CC, along with the address. No problems there.
No, they can't. There is a possibility of cancelling extremely unfair contracts in the contract law (avtaleloven 34).