That wasn't a suggestion of going MVNO, that was a suggestion that Apple should have sold the phones unlocked, you put your own SIM in.
That way, Apple is selling a phone, and the carriers don't have to care. It's much like how it works with a land line phone - you go to K-Mart and buy a phone, bring it home, and plug it into the wall. Ma Bell isn't involved in your phone purchase any more.
Visual voicemail might be cool, but it's no justification for the link to a single carrier, and Apple could have proposed a standard that carriers could have adopted to do visual voicemail.
Going forward, the real way to fix this problem is to prohibit mobile carriers from selling phones at all.
Anybody who invests in a company without doing some basic research (I'm not talking hard stuff here, just the first page of google results) is asking to lose their investment.
And SCO is a penny stock at this point, nobody who is sane and worried about their life savings invests in those.
Well, I really like Apple computers. I've been using Macintoshes for nearly 20 years now, and I really like Mac OS X.
And I'm pissed about this boneheaded move by Apple. You see, I'm also a Linux user, and while I really like iTunes for audio management on my Macs, I hate that it doesn't run on Linux (no, WINE doesn't count), and I really hate the iPod music directory management structure. The original interface (hidden directory, sanely named folders with sanely named audio files in them) was much more sane. Breaking because of a hash value that isn't needed in the first place? That's just stupid.
And encrypted iPod firmware? Stupid. It really should be illegal to release for sale anything where the owner doesn't have the option to decide how to use it.
If the increase in safety cannot be gained without a decrease in essential liberty, then my choice would be to accept the increased risk, not trade away my freedom.
And especially in the case of "terrorism" there is NO valid reason to destroy any liberty in the name of safety, as the risk of injury or death from terrorism is so slight as to be virtually nonexistent. It's barely a blip if you look at the actual risk numbers. The only effect on my life terrorism has had is the massive overreaction creating problems for me - which is far worse than the terrorism itself could ever hope to be.
The semi-secret (they've been leaked, but aren't officially talked about) agreements between the US and other countries are two-way.
The British are heavily involved, and the way it works is that the British are given wiretap access to US calls, which is legal under British law - though it breaks US law, the violation is occurring in Britain, beyond the reach of US law. They then report back to the US government what they heard. We do the same for their domestic calls, and give them the results.
Because the German authorities also cooperate to intercept communications by Americans - it's a mutual aid agreement. The British actually are used more often, and are the ones listening to US domestic and international calls - it's a way of getting around the Constitution. In exchange, we monitor British traffic for them.
And if you read the Bill of Rights, it doesn't have any provisions limiting it to apply only to Americans. It is prohibitions on what the government may do, and they don't have national restrictions, they apply to the actions of the government.
Well, it would have been hard to convict Reagan, since he had no idea what he was doing.
By the time he got into office, the Alzheimer's had hit hard enough that he didn't really understand what he was doing, there wasn't much difference for him between playing a cowboy and playing a president.
Right, the OS they licensed from AT&T, and which ran on chips that didn't support protected memory, and which they outsourced all development of to SCO, and then sold all rights to SCO. What about it?
The Macintosh was 32 bit in 1984, with a 24 bit memory addressing space. It got 32 bit memory addressing in 1991 with System 7.
Windoze 95 was NOT preemptive multitasking, it was badly done cooperative multitasking, not nearly as stable or smooth as the Macintosh's cooperative multitasking.
And there wasn't a consumer version of Windoze that had preemptive multitasking until XP, in October 2001. Mac OS X was released in March 2001.
And if you wanted preemptive multitasking in a server OS, Apple had that before M$ too. A/UX was released in 1988, Windoze 3.0 didn't show up until 1990, and their first preemptive multitasking OS, NT, didn't show up until 1993.
By the time Windoze 2000 was released, Mac OS X Server had already been shipping for a year.
It's a legitimate question, not offtopic at all when you're talking about an IM service that is censoring user conversations.
Somebody please mod parent up.
I use iChat/AIM , iChat/Jabber and Yahoo - and I won't get a M$N account. I tell people that if they want to IM me they can use something other than M$N, as I won't be getting an account there.
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Football can. Of course, football can make anything but golf look good.
Football could make the international nose-picking championship appear to be an intellectual and challenging sport in comparison.
Well, the constitution DOES say "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
This DOES mean that the press in its newsgathering activities IS specifically protected from laws that restrict their ability to do their job. Investigative reporting IS part of their job, and is certainly an example of responsible journalism. I would even go so far as to say that failure to do investigative reporting is an example of irresponsible journalism, and is all too common today. I'm sick of the press release regurgitation journalism that's so common among technology journalists.
And the way the people can act as a check on the media is to either ignore or heartily criticize the media when we feel they are doing a bad job. For example, I don't watch Faux News, because they pander to the extreme right wing nutcases, and are generally not capable of delivering useful information. If you don't watch them, and let their advertisers know you don't watch them, you're acting as a check.
Now, I'm not saying that this particular case is one where NBC was doing the right thing - I would prefer the undercover reporter were there doing a story about the government spies who infiltrated the conference, and put their faces on TV so they couldn't infiltrate anything else again. NBC was barking up the wrong tree here, just like they are being evil with their "To Entrap A Predator" series.
If you're getting visual cues while you're driving, you're not paying attention to driving - thus you're more distracted by the passenger than you could possibly be by the cell phone.
I don't consider three solder points to be a major hassle if I don't have to do it more than once a year. I'll probably end up doing it for other people for a more nominal fee than Apple charges. From the size of the solder points, it looks like it will be easier than some of the plug-in connectors on MacBook Pro and iMac logic boards.
And the weight thing just makes me feel old. I've had cell phones with batteries that weigh more than an iPod, it wouldn't bother me at all for it to be heavier.
IF my iBook had a PCMCIA or ExpressCard slot (it doesn't) then I could spend an extra $60/month to have a thing that would get broken hanging off the side of my laptop.
Or I could do what I do now: leave the phone on my belt, and click connect. No cables, no juggling, no hassle, $20 data plan on my phone. Bluetooth works well for tethering.
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Your numbers are old.
The Mac has over 6% of the US desktop market, and nearly 15% of the US portable market - and GPS is more likely to be used with a portable.
Which is not to say I don't want to see a Linux desktop client here - I certainly do.
Iraq doesn't have a legitimate government, and won't until sometime after the US troops are gone and free elections can be held.
Iraq has what is generally called a "puppet regime".
So, no one is in charge of the legitimate government of Iraq, as such a thing doesn't exist.
That wasn't a suggestion of going MVNO, that was a suggestion that Apple should have sold the phones unlocked, you put your own SIM in.
That way, Apple is selling a phone, and the carriers don't have to care. It's much like how it works with a land line phone - you go to K-Mart and buy a phone, bring it home, and plug it into the wall. Ma Bell isn't involved in your phone purchase any more.
Visual voicemail might be cool, but it's no justification for the link to a single carrier, and Apple could have proposed a standard that carriers could have adopted to do visual voicemail.
Going forward, the real way to fix this problem is to prohibit mobile carriers from selling phones at all.
Anybody who invests in a company without doing some basic research (I'm not talking hard stuff here, just the first page of google results) is asking to lose their investment.
And SCO is a penny stock at this point, nobody who is sane and worried about their life savings invests in those.
That's kind of like saying the Allies shouldn't have celebrated after the defeat of Nazi Germany.
(oops, did I just Godwin the thread?)
Well, I really like Apple computers. I've been using Macintoshes for nearly 20 years now, and I really like Mac OS X.
And I'm pissed about this boneheaded move by Apple. You see, I'm also a Linux user, and while I really like iTunes for audio management on my Macs, I hate that it doesn't run on Linux (no, WINE doesn't count), and I really hate the iPod music directory management structure. The original interface (hidden directory, sanely named folders with sanely named audio files in them) was much more sane. Breaking because of a hash value that isn't needed in the first place? That's just stupid.
And encrypted iPod firmware? Stupid. It really should be illegal to release for sale anything where the owner doesn't have the option to decide how to use it.
That is absolutely true for me.
If the increase in safety cannot be gained without a decrease in essential liberty, then my choice would be to accept the increased risk, not trade away my freedom.
And especially in the case of "terrorism" there is NO valid reason to destroy any liberty in the name of safety, as the risk of injury or death from terrorism is so slight as to be virtually nonexistent. It's barely a blip if you look at the actual risk numbers. The only effect on my life terrorism has had is the massive overreaction creating problems for me - which is far worse than the terrorism itself could ever hope to be.
Yes, it does.
The semi-secret (they've been leaked, but aren't officially talked about) agreements between the US and other countries are two-way.
The British are heavily involved, and the way it works is that the British are given wiretap access to US calls, which is legal under British law - though it breaks US law, the violation is occurring in Britain, beyond the reach of US law. They then report back to the US government what they heard. We do the same for their domestic calls, and give them the results.
It's a nasty little mess.
Because the German authorities also cooperate to intercept communications by Americans - it's a mutual aid agreement. The British actually are used more often, and are the ones listening to US domestic and international calls - it's a way of getting around the Constitution. In exchange, we monitor British traffic for them.
And if you read the Bill of Rights, it doesn't have any provisions limiting it to apply only to Americans. It is prohibitions on what the government may do, and they don't have national restrictions, they apply to the actions of the government.
Well, it would have been hard to convict Reagan, since he had no idea what he was doing.
By the time he got into office, the Alzheimer's had hit hard enough that he didn't really understand what he was doing, there wasn't much difference for him between playing a cowboy and playing a president.
So, no, no indictment.
You just have to fill out a gift affidavit.
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Right, the OS they licensed from AT&T, and which ran on chips that didn't support protected memory, and which they outsourced all development of to SCO, and then sold all rights to SCO. What about it?
No, my sources are good, and are accurate.
And A/UX had memory protection years before NT existed, so Apple was there first.
And Windoze 9x/ME didn't have memory protection, so Apple had a preemptive multitasking consumer OS with memory protection BEFORE M$.
Um, no.
The Macintosh was 32 bit in 1984, with a 24 bit memory addressing space. It got 32 bit memory addressing in 1991 with System 7.
Windoze 95 was NOT preemptive multitasking, it was badly done cooperative multitasking, not nearly as stable or smooth as the Macintosh's cooperative multitasking.
And there wasn't a consumer version of Windoze that had preemptive multitasking until XP, in October 2001. Mac OS X was released in March 2001.
And if you wanted preemptive multitasking in a server OS, Apple had that before M$ too. A/UX was released in 1988, Windoze 3.0 didn't show up until 1990, and their first preemptive multitasking OS, NT, didn't show up until 1993.
By the time Windoze 2000 was released, Mac OS X Server had already been shipping for a year.
I had my ][+ soon enough to do that. The teacher hated it.
That's not 8 milligram, that's 8 megagram. WAY heavier than a modern drive.
It's a legitimate question, not offtopic at all when you're talking about an IM service that is censoring user conversations.
Somebody please mod parent up.
I use iChat/AIM , iChat/Jabber and Yahoo - and I won't get a M$N account. I tell people that if they want to IM me they can use something other than M$N, as I won't be getting an account there.
Football can. Of course, football can make anything but golf look good.
Football could make the international nose-picking championship appear to be an intellectual and challenging sport in comparison.
So, yes, football certainly makes SNL look good.
Well, the constitution DOES say "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
This DOES mean that the press in its newsgathering activities IS specifically protected from laws that restrict their ability to do their job. Investigative reporting IS part of their job, and is certainly an example of responsible journalism. I would even go so far as to say that failure to do investigative reporting is an example of irresponsible journalism, and is all too common today. I'm sick of the press release regurgitation journalism that's so common among technology journalists.
And the way the people can act as a check on the media is to either ignore or heartily criticize the media when we feel they are doing a bad job. For example, I don't watch Faux News, because they pander to the extreme right wing nutcases, and are generally not capable of delivering useful information. If you don't watch them, and let their advertisers know you don't watch them, you're acting as a check.
Now, I'm not saying that this particular case is one where NBC was doing the right thing - I would prefer the undercover reporter were there doing a story about the government spies who infiltrated the conference, and put their faces on TV so they couldn't infiltrate anything else again. NBC was barking up the wrong tree here, just like they are being evil with their "To Entrap A Predator" series.
If you're getting visual cues while you're driving, you're not paying attention to driving - thus you're more distracted by the passenger than you could possibly be by the cell phone.
So all that proves is that it's ok to use a handset while you're driving, there's no need for handsfree.
That, or ban GPS, music, and passengers.
It's unreasonable to single out cell phones - they're no more distracting than those other things.
Of course, I also question the funding on that study - it wasn't obviously documented in your link.
Ahh, got it. IR cut filter.
It makes sense now.
Um, how exactly are you supposed to clean a low pass filter?
Or is this use of "low pass filter" something else?
I don't consider three solder points to be a major hassle if I don't have to do it more than once a year. I'll probably end up doing it for other people for a more nominal fee than Apple charges. From the size of the solder points, it looks like it will be easier than some of the plug-in connectors on MacBook Pro and iMac logic boards.
And the weight thing just makes me feel old. I've had cell phones with batteries that weigh more than an iPod, it wouldn't bother me at all for it to be heavier.
IF my iBook had a PCMCIA or ExpressCard slot (it doesn't) then I could spend an extra $60/month to have a thing that would get broken hanging off the side of my laptop.
Or I could do what I do now: leave the phone on my belt, and click connect. No cables, no juggling, no hassle, $20 data plan on my phone. Bluetooth works well for tethering.