What substantial stake? Apple has a single patent in the pool. Folks like Samsung have a huge number of patents in the pool. Apple's stake is actually very small.
Apple won't. They own a substantial stake in the h264 patent pool - WebM is their direct competitor, so they arn't going to do anything to aid it.
Claiming some huge 'win' for Apple if H.264 stays dominent is stretching the truth a bit. Some of the 26 companies in the patent pool own over a hundred patents.
I found a similar issue on the iPhone 4. The 'usage' was equal to the actual 'on' time since last charge with almost no 'standby' time showing. A restore and 'setup as new' cleared the issue up for me. Something to consider. About the only thing I had to do was backup some app data from 2 apps. The apps themselves, music, playlists, email settings, etc, were all put back even though it was setup as new.
I also had to put the icons back where I wanted them, but that was pretty minor.
Is this a big deal? It looks like Android already has it's own 'brand' name, as do a variety of handset makers, none of which appear to conflict with 'app store'. This is only a trademark, not a patent on the word.
Pragmatism my ass. They are shipping WebM because they own it. It's a new standards war that Google wants to win. Not because it's 'free', but because it has Google's name on it. To claim this yet continue to ship proprietary flash support in the same browser just looks bad, and makes the entire premise hypocritical.
Add to that that they will continue to bundle the proprietary Flash support, and claims of an 'open' internet smell more like bullshit. Had they truly been motivated by an open and free internet, they would have removed flash support as well.
Actually it does. The proposed rules directly address the practice of not disclosing limits on the connection upfront. Unfortunately, the rules as proposed by Google and eventually adopted by the FCC exempt mobile carriers.
That's incorrect. Even on Edge, you could access both data and voice. It was just slow.
As to using the maps app while your on the phone, you simply switch to speaker mode, use the home button to go the desktop, and open the maps app (or using multitasking to switch to the maps app if you happen to already have it open). You should see a bar at the top of the screen to 'return to the call' which re-opens the phone app. You can continue talking the entire time of course.
As an iPhone user, I use this all the time, and yes it is a big deal. Everything from peeking at a web site for various costs, phone numbers, locations, using a google app while on the phone, etc.
Scherotter said while a few major apps will be able to multitask, such as Pandora, the music streaming app that will play in the background while the user is doing something else, independent apps will not, for now. Scherotter said that eventually, independent apps will be multitask-capable, but he wouldn't say when that would be.
Of course they didn't note exactly what those 'few major apps' are.
I can't agree with this more. It irritates me no end that the GPS in my SUV still uses the old resistive screen tech. It's a pain in the ass to use, even with limited use of a few button clicks every few days when I need to use the navigation system. It is outright painful to enter a few numbers and street names for an address (press hold wait repeat for every character and button press). Anyone who thinks that older touch technology is Ok just to shave some cost off a tablet hasn't used a proper touch screen.
I think you are both correct. The iphone probably remains the single largest handset on the market. I would imagine there isn't a single handset out there that comes close to iPhone numbers since it commands such large market share off of no more than an iPhone, an iPad, and an iTouch device, with the iPhone taking the lions share.
I'd be curious to see what hardware model on Android is the top seller and what it's numbers are compared to the top selling iPhone.
I don't think Apple will let Verizon cripple the phone like they are often caught doing with other hardware. Apple is a different breed when it comes to end users and their own hardware. It cuts both ways, and I suspect this time it will cut Verizon. Right now the iPhone is the hardware to have and I don't think that Verizon has a lot of bargaining power as to "I Want".
Although they can twist their plans to whatever extent they want, I suspect the OS is off limits.
I was wondering if someone would point that out. It was pulled due to licensing issues at the request of one of the developers, not due to some Apple initiated vendetta.
Most iPhone users don't even know what VLC is or care for that matter. The build in media player works fine for pretty much any digital download supplied with DVD's and Blu-Ray, as well any number of h.264 compatible profiles.
Unlikely. The guidelines state that 'useless' apps like fart apps won't be accepted. If folks want those, they'll have to get them from the developers website.
There is no requirement to use.APP. You can use any old file marked as executable. You can also package any app into a DMG file which takes a few seconds in Disk Manager (Shift + Command + N) to create a new DMG from a folder.
They are not 'big'. They are as big as they are, ranging from a few KB to any size needed. You can also run an.APP from the DMG itself if you don't want to copy it to your hard drive. It really makes little difference. Run it from anywhere, and when you're done with it, just drop it in the trash.
Just a minor point. Pretty much every application will re-create a preference file if needed. They always do so on first run, so if you move it to another Mac, it simply recreates any preference files in ~/Library/Preferences
This is not something that well written apps do, but pretty much what every app does. Those that don't automatically recreate preference files would be a rare exception.
Actually you're both close. HDTV ready was typically used for televisions that did not include a HD Tuner (in other words they supported the standard 480P, 720P, 1080i, but didn't typically have the HD tuner (1080P was unheard of back then in a TV). They were ideal for folks using HD boxes like Cable and Satellite that came with their own tuner, as well as for progressive scan DVD players and whatnot.
Having just shopped for a 65" LED - LCD TV, I noticed that most manufacturer's note them as such "LED LCD TV" or something similar, and they usually group both (Florescent backlit and LED backlit) under the LCD category in either case, so it's rather hard to not know that they are indeed LCD T.V.'s.
LED TV's are more energy efficient, but they also suffer from common LED issues in that the light is very directional and tends to have bright spots where an older florescent model may not.
I just did this without issue. I also edited it to 1940, again with no problem. I also added a birthday for someone in 1851. No problem. Is there some documentation of this bug?
I was just thinking about my old MFM drives as soon as I read the summary. I was given a box of motherboards (mostly 8086, 8088's and 286 boards), MFM drives, VGA cards, and 'memory' chips, which I spent a few years on playing with, building out, stripping down, and rebuilding. The MFM drives were usually 5 or 10 MB in size, and sounded like a canary if you're ear was up next to them. My first 3.5" drive was an ultra DMA 33. I want to think it was something like 250 MB, although my memory fails me on that one. Probably due to the sheer number of IDE hard drives I went through. My first 2.5" drive was actually in an Amiga if I recall. It was about $400 dollars for a 40 MB hard drive.
Back in the day, I was lucky enough to be in a school that had a computer room on the cutting edge (TRS-80 Model 1's). You wrote your few hundred lines of code, and fired up the cassette tape, noted the starting index number on the cassette tape for easy retrieval later, and hit the record button;)
To 'load' your program back, you simply looked up the index number that where you started your cassette recording, and used forward fast to just before that index number, then hit the play button while 'loading' it on the computer.
Modern convenience at it's finest..lol
It's pretty amazing considering what I was working with in high school back in the early 80's compared to what I have in something like my phone today. The rate of advancement just in a small piece of my lifetime is considerable.
A minor point, but simply looking at the amount of time spent on a subject doesn't define bias. That coverage could have been good or bad (or McCain could just be boring and of little interest to the public). It does not indicate bias.
There are also interesting studies showing that when polled, most fox viewers held the least amount of true facts.
The basic foundation of the language is the same, although of course VB is decades newer and therefore uses more complex methods and properties. I just don't understand this concept that someone who was taught basic (ala 1980's basic) can't learn OOP. It assumes that the programming language is somehow burned into your thought processes to such an extent that you can no longer think 'outside the box', which is patently ridiculous.
Every language I work with has core concepts based in old Basic to some extent. That doesn't mean I can't take the leap from line numbers to object models.
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What substantial stake? Apple has a single patent in the pool. Folks like Samsung have a huge number of patents in the pool. Apple's stake is actually very small.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/know-your-rights-h-264-patent-licensing-and-you/?s=t5
Claiming some huge 'win' for Apple if H.264 stays dominent is stretching the truth a bit. Some of the 26 companies in the patent pool own over a hundred patents.
I found a similar issue on the iPhone 4. The 'usage' was equal to the actual 'on' time since last charge with almost no 'standby' time showing. A restore and 'setup as new' cleared the issue up for me. Something to consider. About the only thing I had to do was backup some app data from 2 apps. The apps themselves, music, playlists, email settings, etc, were all put back even though it was setup as new.
I also had to put the icons back where I wanted them, but that was pretty minor.
After the 'Setup As New', the problem cleared up.
Is this a big deal? It looks like Android already has it's own 'brand' name, as do a variety of handset makers, none of which appear to conflict with 'app store'. This is only a trademark, not a patent on the word.
Pragmatism my ass. They are shipping WebM because they own it. It's a new standards war that Google wants to win. Not because it's 'free', but because it has Google's name on it. To claim this yet continue to ship proprietary flash support in the same browser just looks bad, and makes the entire premise hypocritical.
It's bullshit.
Add to that that they will continue to bundle the proprietary Flash support, and claims of an 'open' internet smell more like bullshit. Had they truly been motivated by an open and free internet, they would have removed flash support as well.
Actually it does. The proposed rules directly address the practice of not disclosing limits on the connection upfront. Unfortunately, the rules as proposed by Google and eventually adopted by the FCC exempt mobile carriers.
That's incorrect. Even on Edge, you could access both data and voice. It was just slow.
As to using the maps app while your on the phone, you simply switch to speaker mode, use the home button to go the desktop, and open the maps app (or using multitasking to switch to the maps app if you happen to already have it open). You should see a bar at the top of the screen to 'return to the call' which re-opens the phone app. You can continue talking the entire time of course.
As an iPhone user, I use this all the time, and yes it is a big deal. Everything from peeking at a web site for various costs, phone numbers, locations, using a google app while on the phone, etc.
Actually there are a few apps (third party) that MS has allowed to run in the background.
http://www.wpcentral.com/multitasking-coming-wp7-pandora-can-multitask-now
Of course they didn't note exactly what those 'few major apps' are.
You have Google to thank for that. They and Verizon drafted essentially what the FCC adopted for wireless rules. So much for pro-net-neutrality...
Either that or end users have installed apps that are sending data without their knowledge. It's not an uncommon problem, even with regular PC apps.
I can't agree with this more. It irritates me no end that the GPS in my SUV still uses the old resistive screen tech. It's a pain in the ass to use, even with limited use of a few button clicks every few days when I need to use the navigation system. It is outright painful to enter a few numbers and street names for an address (press hold wait repeat for every character and button press). Anyone who thinks that older touch technology is Ok just to shave some cost off a tablet hasn't used a proper touch screen.
I think you are both correct. The iphone probably remains the single largest handset on the market. I would imagine there isn't a single handset out there that comes close to iPhone numbers since it commands such large market share off of no more than an iPhone, an iPad, and an iTouch device, with the iPhone taking the lions share.
I'd be curious to see what hardware model on Android is the top seller and what it's numbers are compared to the top selling iPhone.
I don't think Apple will let Verizon cripple the phone like they are often caught doing with other hardware. Apple is a different breed when it comes to end users and their own hardware. It cuts both ways, and I suspect this time it will cut Verizon. Right now the iPhone is the hardware to have and I don't think that Verizon has a lot of bargaining power as to "I Want".
Although they can twist their plans to whatever extent they want, I suspect the OS is off limits.
I was wondering if someone would point that out. It was pulled due to licensing issues at the request of one of the developers, not due to some Apple initiated vendetta.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/01/vlc-for-iphone-and-ipad-soon-to-disappear-thanks-to-gpl-complain/
Most iPhone users don't even know what VLC is or care for that matter. The build in media player works fine for pretty much any digital download supplied with DVD's and Blu-Ray, as well any number of h.264 compatible profiles.
Unlikely. The guidelines state that 'useless' apps like fart apps won't be accepted. If folks want those, they'll have to get them from the developers website.
There is no requirement to use .APP. You can use any old file marked as executable. You can also package any app into a DMG file which takes a few seconds in Disk Manager (Shift + Command + N) to create a new DMG from a folder.
They are not 'big'. They are as big as they are, ranging from a few KB to any size needed. You can also run an .APP from the DMG itself if you don't want to copy it to your hard drive. It really makes little difference. Run it from anywhere, and when you're done with it, just drop it in the trash.
Just a minor point. Pretty much every application will re-create a preference file if needed. They always do so on first run, so if you move it to another Mac, it simply recreates any preference files in ~/Library/Preferences
This is not something that well written apps do, but pretty much what every app does. Those that don't automatically recreate preference files would be a rare exception.
Actually you're both close. HDTV ready was typically used for televisions that did not include a HD Tuner (in other words they supported the standard 480P, 720P, 1080i, but didn't typically have the HD tuner (1080P was unheard of back then in a TV). They were ideal for folks using HD boxes like Cable and Satellite that came with their own tuner, as well as for progressive scan DVD players and whatnot.
Having just shopped for a 65" LED - LCD TV, I noticed that most manufacturer's note them as such "LED LCD TV" or something similar, and they usually group both (Florescent backlit and LED backlit) under the LCD category in either case, so it's rather hard to not know that they are indeed LCD T.V.'s.
LED TV's are more energy efficient, but they also suffer from common LED issues in that the light is very directional and tends to have bright spots where an older florescent model may not.
I just did this without issue. I also edited it to 1940, again with no problem. I also added a birthday for someone in 1851. No problem. Is there some documentation of this bug?
Actually now that I think on it, those were CGA cards, not VGA...
I was just thinking about my old MFM drives as soon as I read the summary. I was given a box of motherboards (mostly 8086, 8088's and 286 boards), MFM drives, VGA cards, and 'memory' chips, which I spent a few years on playing with, building out, stripping down, and rebuilding. The MFM drives were usually 5 or 10 MB in size, and sounded like a canary if you're ear was up next to them. My first 3.5" drive was an ultra DMA 33. I want to think it was something like 250 MB, although my memory fails me on that one. Probably due to the sheer number of IDE hard drives I went through. My first 2.5" drive was actually in an Amiga if I recall. It was about $400 dollars for a 40 MB hard drive.
Back in the day, I was lucky enough to be in a school that had a computer room on the cutting edge (TRS-80 Model 1's). You wrote your few hundred lines of code, and fired up the cassette tape, noted the starting index number on the cassette tape for easy retrieval later, and hit the record button ;)
To 'load' your program back, you simply looked up the index number that where you started your cassette recording, and used forward fast to just before that index number, then hit the play button while 'loading' it on the computer.
Modern convenience at it's finest..lol
It's pretty amazing considering what I was working with in high school back in the early 80's compared to what I have in something like my phone today. The rate of advancement just in a small piece of my lifetime is considerable.
I thought I felt a disturbance in the force...
A minor point, but simply looking at the amount of time spent on a subject doesn't define bias. That coverage could have been good or bad (or McCain could just be boring and of little interest to the public). It does not indicate bias.
There are also interesting studies showing that when polled, most fox viewers held the least amount of true facts.
http://www.alternet.org/story/149193/study_confirms_that_fox_news_makes_you_stupid
Interesting enough, MSNBC viewers actually scored best on facts.
(Apologies for the URL. It is not intended as a flame, but rather what was published)
The basic foundation of the language is the same, although of course VB is decades newer and therefore uses more complex methods and properties. I just don't understand this concept that someone who was taught basic (ala 1980's basic) can't learn OOP. It assumes that the programming language is somehow burned into your thought processes to such an extent that you can no longer think 'outside the box', which is patently ridiculous.
Every language I work with has core concepts based in old Basic to some extent. That doesn't mean I can't take the leap from line numbers to object models.