Was this a controlled leak? The entire article that was linked paints such a negative view on Twitter. The White House, in conjunction with the DoD, makes such a charade out of the "journalists" travelling with him, fake itineraries, and outright denial he's actually in Afghanistan.
I don't blame you. I pre-ordered one and got it this past Friday and what a total mistake that was. I spent most of the day calling customer support to (not) get my phone working. I ended up shipping it back the next day.
There's been an Audience chip included in the iPhone 4 since June 2010. When iFixit tore down the iPhone 4S and noticed the chip wasn't there, it was assumed that the chip was either integrated into the A5 design or that Apple opted to do noise-cancellation without the need of an Audience chip.
It's true that the A4 chip doesn't have an Audience subprocessor in it but it doesn't mean that the iPhone 4 doesn't have the chip included somewhere else on its motherboard. The conclusion that the iPhone 4 can't do Siri is absolute garbage. The conclusion that the iPhone 4 can't do Siri technically because of this kind audio subprocessor is not being included in the iPhone 4's design needs to have their head examined and start doing some research. This entire thing is hogwash.
Kazuo Hirai is in the position he's at there solely based on his two and a half decades being at the company. He was fed the royal jelly when he left Sony's music group and joined the video game venture in the Playstation 1 era and has been in the running position for top spot at Sony for years now. It's really a question of who's protecting him and why? I mean, he's CEO because he's the last man standing basically. Ken Kutagari, Phil Harrison, and now Howard Stringer have quit, moved on, retired, and whatnot.
Hirai has also been shuffled into a half dozen different positions in the last decade and some of them even were created specifically for him. Sony's been doing a yearly "April 1st" shuffle since at least 2009. Hirai has been progressively working up the ladder around and before this time. It's really hard to say how involved Hirai was in key decisions about the Playstation brand in the last five or six years.
My bet is that he's far from the voice of reason in the executive consensus at Sony and that he may be a large part of the problem. I'm guessing plans enacted years ago regardless of circumstances got him this job. I don't see Hirai going away for good at least in the short term unless the Playstation Vita has a dismal year of sales.
I mean, Sony's consistently used April 1st for the effective date of corporate restructuring annually since 2009 (at least). Let's at least use this opportunity to bet on who gets axed next season.
I agree it's an unfair act to strangle customers with new provisions to older purchases. I don't believe I have a working system that could log onto PSN currently to accept those provisions but I'm considering sending an opt-out to Sony's legal department just in case because I have a lot of older digital purchases from the Playstation Network dating from 2006-2009. If a lawsuit does happen over the EULA and it works in the favor of people that are entitled to class action ability (or even the ability to launch a lawsuit on my own), I want to be a part of it.
You can't get a refund for anything on the Playstation Network. Trust me, I tried. After SCEA turned the keys over to SNEA (or whatever abbreviation Sony's using for their digital networking division) and the hacking that bought PSN down for a month, I wrote a letter to Sony explaining that I've lost faith in their digital service and their ability to secure vital financial and personal information and could no longer A) Be their customer B) Agree to their new terms because it's not the service I signed up for in November of 2006 (and it might have never been with the way EULAs are crafted). I can either have to forfeit your ability to log in or accept the new terms.
EULAs have become this living contract that only favors the company and totally, unconditionally screws the customer. Period. Sony is a case example of excessive abuse of EULAs because of their management and business shortcomings and have a total disconnect with their customers.
It's a problem because as we've already seen, if AT&T or Verizon makes a business move, the other "reacts" to it and the reaction is usually it's beneficial to both parties and not to the customer.
The basic principle of regulation is missing from the US regulatory puzzle. You have a market where the telecommunications companies function as their own regulators. They set their own prices, place their towers where they can make the most money (particularly AT&T here)/screw expansive infrastructure and actual mobility, stipulate the kinds of phones that are on their network, and create a barrier of entry revolving around contracts/subsidies and credit checks. Spectrum allotment is an obvious technicality so everything works but in this case, it's a fancy way to pad and line a few wallets.
It's super cozy if you can set all the conditions and variables in your market and be the one or two companies in it. FCC and FTC basically function as agencies willing to do anything for the highest bidder and the companies only care about themselves. The problem is obvious; the customer is completely left out of the equation. It's not a free market and if it was, it's been perverted out of one.
Somewhere, somehow, it hasn't been made an issue, yet. I wonder if and how AT&T will work up the muster to get rid of it's unionized workforce with this acquisition/merger, if it does happen.
Marco Arment explains his version of the situation in his blog. Basically, the FBI has this "drug bust" proximity to the evidence must also be evidence mentality to executing a search warrant. Anything unrelated to the crime could have been loaded on adjacent servers. Did they only need one search warrant for DigitalOne?
Skype is working just fine. I just call tested in on my iPhone 4 moments ago and the polite British test call lady sounded as clear as ever. I think she's British. Never really stopped to play her accent.
This is another Orson Welles caliber example of Internet reporting. Bravo.
The PSN+ month free offer is worst than a them offering customers a gift card. It comes as absolutely no loss to Sony offering this because it's just a way to ensure and wrap more people into their revenue stream. I liken the move to something more of a casino comp in that they'll lure you in with a shitty buffet so you can piss away more of your money on some false hope.
I'll pass on their token gesture, scripted apology, and boneheaded-ness of connecting with the customer.
Telecommunications in the United States is flawed to the point where we are at an impasse where AT&T is getting back to where it was 30 years ago.
They've tied up GSM to suit their own needs by locking down their phones to prevent customer retention to a competing network and signing two year contracts to further prevent the retention and legitimize it by selling atrociously overpriced phones for something that should be manageable without the contract (or bribe).
Carriers pick the phones they want on their network and dictate to hardware manufacturers the what features they want.
In general, carriers have been this middle man that dictates EVERYTHING... and I think that it really can't sustain itself on an ethical or economic level. It's been ignored for way too long. Their customer service is lousy and their corporate stores run like a used car lot.
FCC and FTC needs to put their foot down and counter-bullshit them with an opportunity to rewrite or enforce the books a bit more. Contracts and SIM locks need to go away at the very minimum if the deal goes through. What in the flying fuck do these government bodies even represent if they don't kick AT&T's ass to the floor?
I'm kind of leaning on the idea that the "anonymous reader" that submitted the article might be the author of the software.
The software barely works. You need to lock yourself in a pitch black room for the thing to even remotely register the geometry correctly. Anywhere with any hint of light other than from your iOS device screen totally throws it off. Put your money into a more worthwhile 99 cent investment/scientific achievement... Fat Booth.
I'm not going to defend the guy on account there are a lot of people out there that are mentally one pebble short of a total meltdown/cataclysm. Some philosophers will argue that all people are inherently evil. If that were the case, people in power like politicians would start locking up as many people as possible because the average citizen be a threat to him or her.
A lot of people are dissatisfied with their government and outside of voting, the elected official (whether they voted for them or not) sits cozy in their seats until the next term.
I don't expect the common man or woman to really know or respect common discourse if they feel that their representing politician is a crook or if someone is not getting represented.
A public YouTube video should be considered to some degree a forum of symbolic speech as the media, direction, and audience is so broad... it's not like pasting a threatening letter together with magazine clippings covered on dog shit saying you're going to kill him/her.
I think without a doubt, a YouTube video will make you stand out as a threat above instead of a grandma next store shaking her fist at CNN on television and wishing anarchy.
The driver and the officer have no reason to believe that their actions on a public highway are not being recorded by a third party. The officer is taping the situation from a dashboard traffic camera, there's passer bys, and on major highways, traffic cams. I understand that in some states, law only one consenting party has to be aware (like yourself) that the conversation is being recorded while other states require you to tell the person on the other end.
As it's read, it's kind of baseless since the inherent design of a voicemail is to record messages and not eavesdrop or record conversations. People don't have an expectation to privacy if your voice somehow crops up on a voicemail someone is leaving ten feet away on your on a sidewalk.
I could understand this being a law violation if you "accidently" leave your iPhone on voicemail or in a voice memo app in your psychologist's office to hear in on the next patient or doing something malice towards the confidential privacy of others protected by law.
I've read his resume. He works at Nokia, not for Free Software Foundation. He's not a philosopher or a lawyer either. It's pretty easy to say that he's acting in the interest of the company that feeds his face and lines his wallet Remi went out on his own to try to pull the app and succeeded. This guy just wants to code himself a bigger cock.
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Hopefully they'll release Romney's source code.
Was this a controlled leak? The entire article that was linked paints such a negative view on Twitter. The White House, in conjunction with the DoD, makes such a charade out of the "journalists" travelling with him, fake itineraries, and outright denial he's actually in Afghanistan.
I don't blame you. I pre-ordered one and got it this past Friday and what a total mistake that was. I spent most of the day calling customer support to (not) get my phone working. I ended up shipping it back the next day.
Have you tried bending over?
http://www.ifixit.com/blog/2011/05/17/unveiled-audience-powers-iphone-4s-impressive-noise-cancellation/
There's been an Audience chip included in the iPhone 4 since June 2010. When iFixit tore down the iPhone 4S and noticed the chip wasn't there, it was assumed that the chip was either integrated into the A5 design or that Apple opted to do noise-cancellation without the need of an Audience chip.
It's true that the A4 chip doesn't have an Audience subprocessor in it but it doesn't mean that the iPhone 4 doesn't have the chip included somewhere else on its motherboard. The conclusion that the iPhone 4 can't do Siri is absolute garbage. The conclusion that the iPhone 4 can't do Siri technically because of this kind audio subprocessor is not being included in the iPhone 4's design needs to have their head examined and start doing some research. This entire thing is hogwash.
Kazuo Hirai is in the position he's at there solely based on his two and a half decades being at the company. He was fed the royal jelly when he left Sony's music group and joined the video game venture in the Playstation 1 era and has been in the running position for top spot at Sony for years now. It's really a question of who's protecting him and why? I mean, he's CEO because he's the last man standing basically. Ken Kutagari, Phil Harrison, and now Howard Stringer have quit, moved on, retired, and whatnot.
Hirai has also been shuffled into a half dozen different positions in the last decade and some of them even were created specifically for him. Sony's been doing a yearly "April 1st" shuffle since at least 2009. Hirai has been progressively working up the ladder around and before this time. It's really hard to say how involved Hirai was in key decisions about the Playstation brand in the last five or six years.
My bet is that he's far from the voice of reason in the executive consensus at Sony and that he may be a large part of the problem. I'm guessing plans enacted years ago regardless of circumstances got him this job. I don't see Hirai going away for good at least in the short term unless the Playstation Vita has a dismal year of sales.
I mean, Sony's consistently used April 1st for the effective date of corporate restructuring annually since 2009 (at least). Let's at least use this opportunity to bet on who gets axed next season.
The US has more guinea pigs.
I agree it's an unfair act to strangle customers with new provisions to older purchases. I don't believe I have a working system that could log onto PSN currently to accept those provisions but I'm considering sending an opt-out to Sony's legal department just in case because I have a lot of older digital purchases from the Playstation Network dating from 2006-2009. If a lawsuit does happen over the EULA and it works in the favor of people that are entitled to class action ability (or even the ability to launch a lawsuit on my own), I want to be a part of it.
You can't get a refund for anything on the Playstation Network. Trust me, I tried. After SCEA turned the keys over to SNEA (or whatever abbreviation Sony's using for their digital networking division) and the hacking that bought PSN down for a month, I wrote a letter to Sony explaining that I've lost faith in their digital service and their ability to secure vital financial and personal information and could no longer A) Be their customer B) Agree to their new terms because it's not the service I signed up for in November of 2006 (and it might have never been with the way EULAs are crafted). I can either have to forfeit your ability to log in or accept the new terms.
EULAs have become this living contract that only favors the company and totally, unconditionally screws the customer. Period. Sony is a case example of excessive abuse of EULAs because of their management and business shortcomings and have a total disconnect with their customers.
It's a problem because as we've already seen, if AT&T or Verizon makes a business move, the other "reacts" to it and the reaction is usually it's beneficial to both parties and not to the customer.
The basic principle of regulation is missing from the US regulatory puzzle. You have a market where the telecommunications companies function as their own regulators. They set their own prices, place their towers where they can make the most money (particularly AT&T here)/screw expansive infrastructure and actual mobility, stipulate the kinds of phones that are on their network, and create a barrier of entry revolving around contracts/subsidies and credit checks. Spectrum allotment is an obvious technicality so everything works but in this case, it's a fancy way to pad and line a few wallets.
It's super cozy if you can set all the conditions and variables in your market and be the one or two companies in it. FCC and FTC basically function as agencies willing to do anything for the highest bidder and the companies only care about themselves. The problem is obvious; the customer is completely left out of the equation. It's not a free market and if it was, it's been perverted out of one.
Somewhere, somehow, it hasn't been made an issue, yet. I wonder if and how AT&T will work up the muster to get rid of it's unionized workforce with this acquisition/merger, if it does happen.
http://blog.instapaper.com/post/6830514157
Marco Arment explains his version of the situation in his blog. Basically, the FBI has this "drug bust" proximity to the evidence must also be evidence mentality to executing a search warrant. Anything unrelated to the crime could have been loaded on adjacent servers. Did they only need one search warrant for DigitalOne?
and why is this a Slashdot story?
SNES9x is a non-commercial license. Even if he released the source, he can't sell it for money, like he's been doing.
Is it so hard to put the hippie's entire name in the title of the article instead of abbreviating it?
Skype is working just fine. I just call tested in on my iPhone 4 moments ago and the polite British test call lady sounded as clear as ever. I think she's British. Never really stopped to play her accent. This is another Orson Welles caliber example of Internet reporting. Bravo.
So that one episode in Voyager where Seven of Nine makes a "Fourier Analysis" wasn't total bullshit?
The PSN+ month free offer is worst than a them offering customers a gift card. It comes as absolutely no loss to Sony offering this because it's just a way to ensure and wrap more people into their revenue stream. I liken the move to something more of a casino comp in that they'll lure you in with a shitty buffet so you can piss away more of your money on some false hope.
I'll pass on their token gesture, scripted apology, and boneheaded-ness of connecting with the customer.
Telecommunications in the United States is flawed to the point where we are at an impasse where AT&T is getting back to where it was 30 years ago.
They've tied up GSM to suit their own needs by locking down their phones to prevent customer retention to a competing network and signing two year contracts to further prevent the retention and legitimize it by selling atrociously overpriced phones for something that should be manageable without the contract (or bribe).
Carriers pick the phones they want on their network and dictate to hardware manufacturers the what features they want.
In general, carriers have been this middle man that dictates EVERYTHING... and I think that it really can't sustain itself on an ethical or economic level. It's been ignored for way too long. Their customer service is lousy and their corporate stores run like a used car lot.
FCC and FTC needs to put their foot down and counter-bullshit them with an opportunity to rewrite or enforce the books a bit more. Contracts and SIM locks need to go away at the very minimum if the deal goes through. What in the flying fuck do these government bodies even represent if they don't kick AT&T's ass to the floor?
I'm kind of leaning on the idea that the "anonymous reader" that submitted the article might be the author of the software.
The software barely works. You need to lock yourself in a pitch black room for the thing to even remotely register the geometry correctly. Anywhere with any hint of light other than from your iOS device screen totally throws it off. Put your money into a more worthwhile 99 cent investment/scientific achievement... Fat Booth.
by clicking the "like" button under "CODE RED: TERRORISTS STRIKE".
I'm not going to defend the guy on account there are a lot of people out there that are mentally one pebble short of a total meltdown/cataclysm. Some philosophers will argue that all people are inherently evil. If that were the case, people in power like politicians would start locking up as many people as possible because the average citizen be a threat to him or her.
A lot of people are dissatisfied with their government and outside of voting, the elected official (whether they voted for them or not) sits cozy in their seats until the next term.
I don't expect the common man or woman to really know or respect common discourse if they feel that their representing politician is a crook or if someone is not getting represented.
A public YouTube video should be considered to some degree a forum of symbolic speech as the media, direction, and audience is so broad... it's not like pasting a threatening letter together with magazine clippings covered on dog shit saying you're going to kill him/her.
I think without a doubt, a YouTube video will make you stand out as a threat above instead of a grandma next store shaking her fist at CNN on television and wishing anarchy.
I guess you really got to watch what you say.
The driver and the officer have no reason to believe that their actions on a public highway are not being recorded by a third party. The officer is taping the situation from a dashboard traffic camera, there's passer bys, and on major highways, traffic cams. I understand that in some states, law only one consenting party has to be aware (like yourself) that the conversation is being recorded while other states require you to tell the person on the other end.
As it's read, it's kind of baseless since the inherent design of a voicemail is to record messages and not eavesdrop or record conversations. People don't have an expectation to privacy if your voice somehow crops up on a voicemail someone is leaving ten feet away on your on a sidewalk.
I could understand this being a law violation if you "accidently" leave your iPhone on voicemail or in a voice memo app in your psychologist's office to hear in on the next patient or doing something malice towards the confidential privacy of others protected by law.
The headline should have said "Horny Traffic Lights in Johannesburg Rack Up Thousands in Phone Bills as Public Outrage".
I've read his resume. He works at Nokia, not for Free Software Foundation. He's not a philosopher or a lawyer either. It's pretty easy to say that he's acting in the interest of the company that feeds his face and lines his wallet Remi went out on his own to try to pull the app and succeeded. This guy just wants to code himself a bigger cock.