Your comment doesnt actually make any sense. If the network was so unstable, people would be crashing it for fun out of their own garages. You don't need a handset to cause the type of chaos you're worried about here. Disregarding your paranoia, why would HTC care what software a customer runs on their purchased hardware? Oh, right. Cause HTC doesnt sell to consumers, it sells to telcos. The telco doesnt want to lose control, so the telco is the one demanding these lockin capabilities.
...ting..ur...ment...ween...ject...ment sucks. Don't ever do that. Splitting your sentence in half and displaying it in seperate text elements is just as annoying as if someone had taken the time to split each word in the sentence and spread that amongst several text elements. In short, just don't do what you just did. Ever. Again.
Flashblock does not prevent loading of flash programs. All it does is hide them from view (and sound). Use NoScript instead. Block all 3rd party scripts and enable all 1st party scripts.
You can load XBMC on it now, which makes it partially awesome. it still has a fairly useless HDD in it. Also, there's another app you can install on it called atv, that significantly increases its abilities, as well as enabling USB Mass Storage devices. Sad to say, but the reason the apple TV sucks, is because apple is making it useless by completely strangling its features.
The whole point of UAC was to shame the bad programmers into exactly this behavior. Unfortunately, MSFT has the grace of an ox and fell on their asses trying to shift blame.
Nope, check the EULA. They literally spell out your rights. If for any reason, their DRM system needs to be taken permanently offline, they will provide you with the tools to remove the DRM from your purchased media.
That said, I would never knowingly purchase any DRM'd content. It just defies all intelligence.
Yes, according to some other article I read on some other site, they have already accomplished 10% of their planned 200 miles of fiber runs. Meanwhile, the municipality could not access the funds it needed to purchase the supplies to begin the project.
They didn't "lose" money on the lawsuit. They "made an investment". The whole point of the lawsuit was to give them a head-start in the competition against the city. They just wanted to tie the cities coffers so they could start their fiber roll-out before the city did. They succeeded in this goal, so their "investment" paid off big time for them.
what part of Deliberate, open, and peaceful violation of particular laws, decrees, regulations, military or police orders, or other governmental directives are you having trouble understanding?
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Apple lets you run windows on their computers. You're still not making sense.
Your comment doesnt actually make any sense. If the network was so unstable, people would be crashing it for fun out of their own garages. You don't need a handset to cause the type of chaos you're worried about here. Disregarding your paranoia, why would HTC care what software a customer runs on their purchased hardware? Oh, right. Cause HTC doesnt sell to consumers, it sells to telcos. The telco doesnt want to lose control, so the telco is the one demanding these lockin capabilities.
So now we need to look for open hardware to run theoretically open software? You're seriously killing my buzz here.
So take the OS source, fork it, and update your phone. There, kill switch is gone.
...ting ..ur ...ment ...ween ...ject ...ment sucks. Don't ever do that. Splitting your sentence in half and displaying it in seperate text elements is just as annoying as if someone had taken the time to split each word in the sentence and spread that amongst several text elements. In short, just don't do what you just did. Ever. Again.
I protest! I protest mightily!
You have been judged as "not a nerd". Please surrender your uid and depart the website immediately.
Flashblock does not prevent loading of flash programs. All it does is hide them from view (and sound). Use NoScript instead. Block all 3rd party scripts and enable all 1st party scripts.
Even betterer! I'm currently building an MMO for the iPhone!
You can load XBMC on it now, which makes it partially awesome. it still has a fairly useless HDD in it. Also, there's another app you can install on it called atv, that significantly increases its abilities, as well as enabling USB Mass Storage devices. Sad to say, but the reason the apple TV sucks, is because apple is making it useless by completely strangling its features.
cause noone ever heard of a sorceror or a wizardress.
We've gone from RTFA to RTFS, now.
Do people on /. actually read anything?
I read your comment. I can has cookie?
Perhaps you should have taken a moment to confirm that indeed, every other post in the thread says the exact same thing.
They didn't exist when I started my post, but thanks for your thoughtful insight.
Am I the only one who sees this as nothing more than an attempt to sell 3x as many retail boxes?
Yahoo!: Possibly won't be available next semester.
And Legends of Aranna is exactly the kind of expansion pack I wanted to see alot more of. They could have sold me another 10 or 15 of those.
It's not that Verizon exposed "the wrong" 1200 emails, it's that Verizon exposed any email addresses at all.
If ever there was a worst-case-scenario set of 1200 email addresses, this list was it.
The whole point of UAC was to shame the bad programmers into exactly this behavior. Unfortunately, MSFT has the grace of an ox and fell on their asses trying to shift blame.
I don't think I've ever heard Bjork described as "homogenous" before.
Nope, check the EULA. They literally spell out your rights. If for any reason, their DRM system needs to be taken permanently offline, they will provide you with the tools to remove the DRM from your purchased media.
That said, I would never knowingly purchase any DRM'd content. It just defies all intelligence.
Have they started rolling out fiber?
Yes, according to some other article I read on some other site, they have already accomplished 10% of their planned 200 miles of fiber runs. Meanwhile, the municipality could not access the funds it needed to purchase the supplies to begin the project.
Must be due to /.'s monopoly on blog comment scoring
This was no waste of money.
They didn't "lose" money on the lawsuit. They "made an investment". The whole point of the lawsuit was to give them a head-start in the competition against the city. They just wanted to tie the cities coffers so they could start their fiber roll-out before the city did. They succeeded in this goal, so their "investment" paid off big time for them.
They do not have the rights to take such actions as you propose. Only Apple/iTunes was smart enough to get that written into their contract.
this because of "feedback from the customers."
Only did this so that people wouldn't sue them.
You say tomato, I say fruit. Whatever.
what part of Deliberate, open, and peaceful violation of particular laws, decrees, regulations, military or police orders, or other governmental directives are you having trouble understanding?