Exactly. Theres no way Sony will allow this after they've banned it. As much as I hate their action (it really sucks), and how American Sony representative just an month ago said they would keep continue supporting OtherOS feature (someone can probably dig the link to that mailing list from the older discussion), they must have a good reason to do this against their previous words and I don't see them not fightings against any circumvents. After all it's quite easy to do and there would be several ways (including the plain and simple partition on your connected HDD) to detect such hack in place.
Besides, this person hasn't released any worthwhile hack. Yes, he did get the system to overpower itself by burning the hardware jolts and causing kernel panic. Other than that, theres no anything actual.
I do actually use Windows Mobile, as my phone is HTC Touch HD. Granted its the customized WM, but the system is still same.
I hate that Microsoft is going the Apple route with Windows Mobile 7. I'm quite certain I won't be buying any phone with it, nor will I go with Android as the privacy intrusion with it is not a good thing.
Whenever I need a new phone, I guess it'll be Linux phone this time. Nokia's N900 is already top-of-the-line and I probably should had went with it already.
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What about when Novell starts abusing their position? Maybe not now, maybe not in a few years, but you never know what happens or who buys what company..
Let's crowdsource the HTC v. Apple tangle, too. What does everyone think? Based on what we've seen from short press pieces and a flurry of Slashdot comments and the mood of the crowd, how should we decide their arguments?
That Apple is bullying HTC.
It would actually be a lot better if slashdot crowd could rule patent fights outcome.
You can make a Nazi salute or deny the Holocaust in EU, but just not in Germany. And it was the US that put those laws in place there after WWII.
Not that I disagree though, there are still free speech issues that need to be worked out within EU countries. However it's generally a problem within those single countries, not whole EU in general.
This is actually correct. Apple has been infringing patents from pretty much everyone and Nokia is also trying to protect their patents. Apple on the other hand just keeps infringing those patents, but at the same time itself sues everyone under the sun for infringing their patents.
What are you talking about? This is not filtering, this is completely disabling Internet. Hence the "kill switch" term.
Besides, snooping and filtering isn't that much different. They both do exactly the same thing, but instead of saving the data (snooping) it is dropped (filtering). I would argue that filtering is easier to do because you don't actually need to save the data or analysis anywhere.
While US did create ARPA in the 50's for military use, most of how Internet is used now a day has been actually created in Europe. US got the ball rolling, Europe polished and finished it.
On 6 August 1991, CERN, a pan European organization for particle research, publicized the new World Wide Web project. The Web was invented by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989.
Same goes for almost every other major protocol and technology.
And just think of what country has whored ICANN (and doesn't want to free it even while EU has asked to do so), most of the tier 1 providers and other Internet infrastructure to itself.
I don't see those being freed either, it's really convenient and a good diplomatic weapon for US to have a kill switch over the Internet if EU, China or Russia start to dominate too much.
3G elsewhere in the world isn't as bad as in US. Here you can get unlimited 5Mbit/s 3G for $30 a month and its stable connection. Hell, we already have 4G in largest cities (128 Mbit/s downlink and 56 Mbit/s uplink)
And even more so, theres also freeware Flash IDE's. Sure they're not as good as Adobe's, but it's still better than what easy IDE's there are for HTML5 Canvas (0 to be exact)
Considering how poor of quality many third-party iPhone apps are, it's a great thing that they couldn't sit around in the background eating up battery.
App Store is a seriously controlled environment and they already impose strict guidelines for developers. How does an idle application even eat up more battery? It's not like your RAM needs more power if it's used a little bit more. The background app doesn't need to do any drawing and is usually on pause (unless it needs to do certain tasks in the background, and then it makes sense).
How does it not make things simpler?
Because you have to travel the menus to locate your app you just switched out from and load up whatever you were doing, and even to perform a quick copy-paste you need to: 1) save your document 2) close app 1 3) locate app 2 4) open app 2 5) copy 6) close app 2 7) locate app 1 8) load up the document you were working with 9) scroll to the point you wanted to paste to 10) paste 11) do the same again because your copypaste missed something
Multi-tasking is a bad idea. Most users are not computer professionals.
Yeah, because multi-tasking in Windows definitely requires you to be computer professional. Everyone I know, also girls, are also perfectly capable of multitasking on phone.
And this is different from the 10000 other rumors...because ?
Cause it's rumors that are occurring less than a week before the iPad - DUH!
Which is kind of like shooting yourself in the leg. Not only will the new iPhone have same resolution than iPad, it will allow you to multitask while iPad doesn't. What kind of sick thinking is to allow multitasking on a phone but not on a tablet computer. Basically you get less by buying iPad, and it doesn't even have phone capabilities.
And other points of interests from the article:
multitasking support
Oh it seems Apple finally got to 90's computing. Didn't all the Apple fanboys say that not having multitasking to eat out battery life was better? And that it made things simpler? Are you still having that opinion, or do you just follow what Steve Jobs says again?
a front facing camera
Revolutionary. My HTC phones have had such since like early 2000.
You still needed to download everything, sometimes slowly, and most of the time things were inconsistently organized (filenames and in some cases had weird folder structures too). While it was great for the time being, I wouldn't exactly call it convenient.
What? No. Farmville asks you if it can send those messages, and while it does offer incentive for you to do so (more in-game points), you in no way need to allow it to.
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Exactly. Theres no way Sony will allow this after they've banned it. As much as I hate their action (it really sucks), and how American Sony representative just an month ago said they would keep continue supporting OtherOS feature (someone can probably dig the link to that mailing list from the older discussion), they must have a good reason to do this against their previous words and I don't see them not fightings against any circumvents. After all it's quite easy to do and there would be several ways (including the plain and simple partition on your connected HDD) to detect such hack in place.
Besides, this person hasn't released any worthwhile hack. Yes, he did get the system to overpower itself by burning the hardware jolts and causing kernel panic. Other than that, theres no anything actual.
I do actually use Windows Mobile, as my phone is HTC Touch HD. Granted its the customized WM, but the system is still same.
I hate that Microsoft is going the Apple route with Windows Mobile 7. I'm quite certain I won't be buying any phone with it, nor will I go with Android as the privacy intrusion with it is not a good thing.
Whenever I need a new phone, I guess it'll be Linux phone this time. Nokia's N900 is already top-of-the-line and I probably should had went with it already.
What about when Novell starts abusing their position? Maybe not now, maybe not in a few years, but you never know what happens or who buys what company..
Let's crowdsource the HTC v. Apple tangle, too. What does everyone think? Based on what we've seen from short press pieces and a flurry of Slashdot comments and the mood of the crowd, how should we decide their arguments?
That Apple is bullying HTC.
It would actually be a lot better if slashdot crowd could rule patent fights outcome.
Maybe not in every case, but if they're more right than wrong it works out.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/12/29/2143218/Nokia-Claims-Patent-Violations-in-Most-Apple-Products
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/10/22/1541220/Nokia-Sues-Apple-For-Patent-Infringement-In-iPhone
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/01/28/2055209/Fujitsu-Readies-Lawsuit-Over-iPad-Name
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/03/15/1854220/Nokia-Claims-Apple-Does-Legal-Alchemy-To-Mask-IP-Theft
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/01/17/069258/Apple-Seeks-To-Ban-Nokia-Imports-To-US
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/01/14/1941208/Kodak-Sues-Apple-amp-RIM-Over-Preview-In-Cameras
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/12/11/2048248/Apple-Counter-Sues-Nokia-Over-Patents
Or just do slashdot search for apple patent or nokia patent..
You can make a Nazi salute or deny the Holocaust in EU, but just not in Germany. And it was the US that put those laws in place there after WWII.
Not that I disagree though, there are still free speech issues that need to be worked out within EU countries. However it's generally a problem within those single countries, not whole EU in general.
What else is new?
This is actually correct. Apple has been infringing patents from pretty much everyone and Nokia is also trying to protect their patents. Apple on the other hand just keeps infringing those patents, but at the same time itself sues everyone under the sun for infringing their patents.
What are you talking about? This is not filtering, this is completely disabling Internet. Hence the "kill switch" term.
Besides, snooping and filtering isn't that much different. They both do exactly the same thing, but instead of saving the data (snooping) it is dropped (filtering). I would argue that filtering is easier to do because you don't actually need to save the data or analysis anywhere.
According to TFA, 960x640.
Yeah, which is actually 4x times the current resolution of 480 x 320, instead of 2x like mentioned in the summary.
Oh god. On slashdot, really?
While US did create ARPA in the 50's for military use, most of how Internet is used now a day has been actually created in Europe. US got the ball rolling, Europe polished and finished it.
On 6 August 1991, CERN, a pan European organization for particle research, publicized the new World Wide Web project. The Web was invented by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989.
Same goes for almost every other major protocol and technology.
And yet lags behind in features on the MAC platform (GPU acceleration, 64-bit).
That's because Apple doesn't give access to corresponding API's.
As far as I know, there's no Great Firewall of China style ISP-level filter here in America. So how would they even enforce a blackout of a website?
Should be easy enough to include such function inside the snooping machines that NSA has at tier 1 providers and ISP's.
Tell me, what is one of the most popular apps on multi tasking phones? Memory cleanup programs.
Then why haven't I needed such program with Symbian (apart from the early 2000 phones) nor Windows Mobile?
Besides, why would you need a memory cleanup program? You can just close the program that is taking too much memory.
And just think of what country has whored ICANN (and doesn't want to free it even while EU has asked to do so), most of the tier 1 providers and other Internet infrastructure to itself.
I don't see those being freed either, it's really convenient and a good diplomatic weapon for US to have a kill switch over the Internet if EU, China or Russia start to dominate too much.
3G elsewhere in the world isn't as bad as in US. Here you can get unlimited 5Mbit/s 3G for $30 a month and its stable connection. Hell, we already have 4G in largest cities (128 Mbit/s downlink and 56 Mbit/s uplink)
And even more so, theres also freeware Flash IDE's. Sure they're not as good as Adobe's, but it's still better than what easy IDE's there are for HTML5 Canvas (0 to be exact)
Considering how poor of quality many third-party iPhone apps are, it's a great thing that they couldn't sit around in the background eating up battery.
App Store is a seriously controlled environment and they already impose strict guidelines for developers. How does an idle application even eat up more battery? It's not like your RAM needs more power if it's used a little bit more. The background app doesn't need to do any drawing and is usually on pause (unless it needs to do certain tasks in the background, and then it makes sense).
How does it not make things simpler?
Because you have to travel the menus to locate your app you just switched out from and load up whatever you were doing, and even to perform a quick copy-paste you need to:
1) save your document
2) close app 1
3) locate app 2
4) open app 2
5) copy
6) close app 2
7) locate app 1
8) load up the document you were working with
9) scroll to the point you wanted to paste to
10) paste
11) do the same again because your copypaste missed something
Yeah, seems really convenient and simple.
Multi-tasking is a bad idea. Most users are not computer professionals.
Yeah, because multi-tasking in Windows definitely requires you to be computer professional. Everyone I know, also girls, are also perfectly capable of multitasking on phone.
Well video call definitely makes phone sex better.
Did you forget that Photoshop is foremost a Mac product?
And do you seriously think iPhone has the CPU capability to crunch 1080p H.264 video?
Which is kind of like shooting yourself in the leg. Not only will the new iPhone have same resolution than iPad, it will allow you to multitask while iPad doesn't. What kind of sick thinking is to allow multitasking on a phone but not on a tablet computer . Basically you get less by buying iPad, and it doesn't even have phone capabilities.
And other points of interests from the article:
multitasking support
Oh it seems Apple finally got to 90's computing. Didn't all the Apple fanboys say that not having multitasking to eat out battery life was better? And that it made things simpler? Are you still having that opinion, or do you just follow what Steve Jobs says again?
a front facing camera
Revolutionary. My HTC phones have had such since like early 2000.
You still needed to download everything, sometimes slowly, and most of the time things were inconsistently organized (filenames and in some cases had weird folder structures too). While it was great for the time being, I wouldn't exactly call it convenient.
What? No. Farmville asks you if it can send those messages, and while it does offer incentive for you to do so (more in-game points), you in no way need to allow it to.