Are you saying that Apple with replace OS X with iOS, essentially stop selling general-purpose computers, and port the iOS SDK to Windows, thus forcing all of their developers to buy Windows PCs?
That's true, but the number of ordinary members of the public - the people a commercial like that would be aimed at - that actually know about and understand that difference is vanishingly small.
If they actually did say that in an advert then they would seem to be at least being disingenuous, given the audience they were targeting.
He could easily be using a 3G dongle to get mobile broadband on a laptop or netbook, you can get some quite restrictive transfer allowances with them especially if you go for a relatively cheap plan (and having read the out of plan tariffs for some of them, with charges of up to 1GBP per MB, you do not want to go over your limit)
It can't be *everywhere* as not every site provides HTTPS access. You could go through a proxy, but that would only encrypt traffic between you and the proxy (and would of course introduce a potential bottleneck if it was a general-use proxy)
It also stops MITM attacks of course - while it's unlikely that anyone would intercept my latest status update or message and change it in flight, with HTTP it's possible.
(Not that I care, but that's one reason why the OP might.)
Wrong is a matter of perspective. Remove all non-alphanumeric.
One of my friends has the surname O'Reilly and would not be terribly impressed with that suggestion. For that matter, I suspect the founder of the well-known publishing company wouldn't be too happy either.
You're also going to upset people with hyphenated names - my daughter's mother's first name, for example, is Lisa-Jane, and I've known people with double-barrelled surnames.
My point being that "strip all non-alphanumerics" is very easy to code, but fails with even with perfectly ordinary English names.
Both my brother and I have two middle names, and they often don't fit on forms - printed ones don't leave enough space, computer ones reject the space between them, etc. I've also had to fill in forms that allow zero or one middle initials, not two (or more - I've known people with more). I visited the doctor for the first time in years last week, and noticed that the computer system she was using didn't have both of my middle names.
My father has one middle name, but uses that as his first name - legally he's "Antony Michael", but he calls himself Mike, as that's what his parents always called him. (And I notice that the Firefox dictionary is rejecting "Antony" as being misspelt...)
As you demonstrate, even perfectly ordinary English names can cause trouble.
1) My personal laptop is 5 years old and despite being a bit battered is perfectly serviceable for the use to which I put it (email, MSN and surfing) but not up to the job of running Windows 7; and 2) My PC at work doesn't belong to me so I'm not in a position to upgrade it (or really to demand an upgrade; they are slowly pushing out Windows 7 though)
My personal desktop I upgraded about 9 months ago; that *is* running Windows 7.
They couldn't push out the command, but they could certainly push out a security/high priority "update" that merely disables the service - everything pushed out via Windows Update is an executable, after all.
As long as Vodafone paid Apple what they agreed upon, I doubt Apple would care. Why would they?
Because it lowers the perceived worth of the product. People in general don't tend to think "OK, so it's X up front then Y/month for Z years, that makes it a total of X+(Y*Z)...". They see the up-front cost as being what the device costs. Sure, most will try to balance the two ("If I spend a little more now, it'll cost less per month...") but I don't think they join the dots in quite the same way.
I want to keep my search separated from my Youtube views/comments separated from my mail.
So use different search and email providers. This is what happens when you use one company for multiple online services; those services tend to interconnect. It's all valuable data for them.
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Seconded on both counts - both those episodes have been known to have me bawling like a little girl.
Are you saying that Apple with replace OS X with iOS, essentially stop selling general-purpose computers, and port the iOS SDK to Windows, thus forcing all of their developers to buy Windows PCs?
Yes they do, PC is short for "Personal Computer" - or are you disputing that Macs are personal computers?
I sincerely hope android destroys the iphone.
I sincerely hope they both remain viable, popular platforms and thus provide competition for one another.
You mean like Washington DC?
Not working here in the UK (from work); I'm presented with a login screen.
They are not nutcases. They are powerful pressure groups, able to influence the policies that rule your life.
Unfortunately those two things are not mutually exclusive.
So... Apple are bad, but everyone else is worse so it's ok?
Admittedly, I haven't used Windows 7 on a touch-based device
And yet you feel compelled to comment that it's not up to the job. Interesting.
Not that I'm saying that it is - far from it, not having used it I am specifically refraining from expressing an opinion on that either way.
That's true, but the number of ordinary members of the public - the people a commercial like that would be aimed at - that actually know about and understand that difference is vanishingly small.
If they actually did say that in an advert then they would seem to be at least being disingenuous, given the audience they were targeting.
He could easily be using a 3G dongle to get mobile broadband on a laptop or netbook, you can get some quite restrictive transfer allowances with them especially if you go for a relatively cheap plan (and having read the out of plan tariffs for some of them, with charges of up to 1GBP per MB, you do not want to go over your limit)
Google also doesn't have HTTPS available on their www.google.co.uk domain; it redirects back to HTTP.
How on earth is correcting a formatting/display issue in your own comment Offtopic?!
It can't be *everywhere* as not every site provides HTTPS access. You could go through a proxy, but that would only encrypt traffic between you and the proxy (and would of course introduce a potential bottleneck if it was a general-use proxy)
It also stops MITM attacks of course - while it's unlikely that anyone would intercept my latest status update or message and change it in flight, with HTTP it's possible.
(Not that I care, but that's one reason why the OP might.)
Wrong is a matter of perspective. Remove all non-alphanumeric.
One of my friends has the surname O'Reilly and would not be terribly impressed with that suggestion. For that matter, I suspect the founder of the well-known publishing company wouldn't be too happy either.
You're also going to upset people with hyphenated names - my daughter's mother's first name, for example, is Lisa-Jane, and I've known people with double-barrelled surnames.
My point being that "strip all non-alphanumerics" is very easy to code, but fails with even with perfectly ordinary English names.
Both my brother and I have two middle names, and they often don't fit on forms - printed ones don't leave enough space, computer ones reject the space between them, etc. I've also had to fill in forms that allow zero or one middle initials, not two (or more - I've known people with more). I visited the doctor for the first time in years last week, and noticed that the computer system she was using didn't have both of my middle names.
My father has one middle name, but uses that as his first name - legally he's "Antony Michael", but he calls himself Mike, as that's what his parents always called him. (And I notice that the Firefox dictionary is rejecting "Antony" as being misspelt...)
As you demonstrate, even perfectly ordinary English names can cause trouble.
Er, 1 tonne = 1,000kg, gravity or no.
(Or do I hear a whooshing sound?)
Well for my part, it's because:
1) My personal laptop is 5 years old and despite being a bit battered is perfectly serviceable for the use to which I put it (email, MSN and surfing) but not up to the job of running Windows 7; and
2) My PC at work doesn't belong to me so I'm not in a position to upgrade it (or really to demand an upgrade; they are slowly pushing out Windows 7 though)
My personal desktop I upgraded about 9 months ago; that *is* running Windows 7.
They couldn't push out the command, but they could certainly push out a security/high priority "update" that merely disables the service - everything pushed out via Windows Update is an executable, after all.
16MB gets you 1 256-bit key every minute for a year.
Given that you can get microSD cards in 32GB capacities now, at least from a size point of view that is definitely not a problem.
Not to mention GPS, which is in the article had our anonymous coward only bothered to read the whole thing before complaining...
devolve into a grammar and logical fallacy flamewar in 4 posts or less
Fewer. 4 posts or fewer...
As long as Vodafone paid Apple what they agreed upon, I doubt Apple would care. Why would they?
Because it lowers the perceived worth of the product. People in general don't tend to think "OK, so it's X up front then Y/month for Z years, that makes it a total of X+(Y*Z)...". They see the up-front cost as being what the device costs. Sure, most will try to balance the two ("If I spend a little more now, it'll cost less per month...") but I don't think they join the dots in quite the same way.
I want to keep my search separated from my Youtube views/comments separated from my mail.
So use different search and email providers. This is what happens when you use one company for multiple online services; those services tend to interconnect. It's all valuable data for them.