i jailbroke mine to run tethering software without having to pay the carrier a fee to use the data i already paid for
then i switched to the n1, and no longer had to power off the device -> hold home button and power button till i see the logo -> let go of home button -> plug in USB etc etc etc to be able to run software i wanted. i owned my device right out the box.
ms never said to re-install windows in the first place, headlines on sites like slashdot mis-reported it to begin with. from slashdot's summary:
"'If your system does get infected with Trojan:Win32/Popureb.E, we advise you to fix the MBR and then use a recovery CD to restore your system to a pre-infected state,' said Feng. A recovery disc returns Windows to its factory settings."
the summary blurted that the recovery disc returns Windows to its factory settings, and left out how it also is the boot environment for restoring from windows backups, which Feng was clearly talking about ("restore your system to a pre-infected state").
Not quite. It has the user's email address in a tag which is easily removed.
which will rarely be done by Joe Filesharer
Which is not illegal to do, and won't happen anyway.
at this point you are proving to be either ill-informed, or sitting in the RDF (both?). there is little hope in helping you understand the gravity and the possibilities; bummer.
Person A downloads album from iTunes. the songs are watermarked with personally-identifiable metadata that indicate to Apple who bought them (this is current fact, not speculation). Person A shares the album using favorite method with Person B (which is illegal for Person A to do). Person B uploads his music collection to iCloud. one year goes by RIAA subpoenas Apple for the metadata, and records of who bought what. Apple happily complies, as it isn't interested in the legal costs involved with a privacy battle it will lose. RIAA parses the data, finds Person A illegally shared the album, adds them to the "to be sued" list.
the only way to avoid this situation would be if apple edited the music files that are updated to iCloud, laundering them for the customer. this won't happen because a) their RIAA contacts would have a fit, b) they would have to inform the public that their "stored" data is being altered -which they haven't - and c) it is an extra cost they just don't want.
it is a little naïve to assume apple hasn't considered this
it is a lot naïve to assume that RIAA and the current content producer-friendly presidential administration (and courts) won't consider capitalizing by subpoenaing user information
you're right, that is a sweet deal. after a rocky ride with t-mobile (their coverage area, not their service), i got in the habit of only thinking of ATT/VZW/sprint. but virgin mobile does get access in tons of places with the sprint network, so that is a pretty good value
check the link i posted. the majority of people do consume less than 200MB of data.
personally i peak out at about 150MB on cellular and 1GB on wifi (according to NetSentry.
that 150MB is google maps for turn-by-turn GPS and pandora while driving (about an hour a day) and various web.
i can't imagine what emails i could get on my cell phone that would add up to 200MB/month. even if i could - them's the breaks. like it or not, it costs more to do more; i would probably just bill work for the extra data plan if i needed it.
it is not a "review of a review," it is a direct link to a review, and a brief description of the link by the submitter. this is actually how slashdot works.
the news is the fifteen+ pages of information, tips, and comparative benchmarks on the new interface.
since there was less than two minutes between the story getting posted and you feverishly working for a snarky-first-post to jack up your karma, i'll forgive you for not noticing.
No, he's saying that a man that obviously hasn't mastered building his own infrastructure is nowhere near qualified to be asking someone else to be the infrastructure for him.
as AC pointed out, that doesn't make any sense.
It is also pretty obvious that the Submitter never bothered to do any basic research on cloud services, otherwise he'd have never posted this question in the first place.
research is looking for information. surely he has done (is doing) solo research. regardless, what crime is being committed by asking peers their experiences on a matter? i think i would actually include that as a necessary step in any preliminary research.
truly, if you have no experiences worth contributing, keep it to yourself, instead of getting mad at some guy for using the Ask Slashdot feature as it was intended.
ed bott makes a living writing privately (for news sites and publishing his own books) on technology topics, mostly about windows - he likes windows, he writes about it, and publishes his work. getting paid to do what you like in a field that you like doesn't make you a shill. it makes you happy. it's a pretty cynical worldview, to assume that people aren't doing honest things because they like them, but instead dishonest things because a MegaCorp is paying them BIG BUX
on TFA, i don't see what "bias" you want to find in facts - the document exists. apple documents have an anti-apple bias, is what you are trying to say? facts have an anti-apple bias? of course not, that's silly.
australia is hardly a "big" country in the way the us is; it is surely spacious, but saying it has a modest population is being liberal. 2009 census data pins its population at 22 million, compared to the us at over 300 million.
in the example of the roads, google results pin america at having 4.9 million miles of roads, compared to almost a million in australia; both have surely increased since said publications (plus or minus their accuracy). saying australia has 1/5 the amount of roads and related transportation infrastructure is probably a good guess.
citing australia as a "big" country and then making that a logical link to saying a truly "big" country should be able to do something with similar swiftness is like comparing apples to... really small apples, ones roughly 1/5 the size of a normal apple.
the point isn't that you can use android on x86 (chips will always leapfrog eachother season to season on performance capabilities)
the point is that once android does support x86, theoretically there could be more tablet homogenization - a company could release the same model running both android and, say, windows, or you could purchase one and install your favorite linux distro, customized to suit the tablet
being in a different country doesn't have much of a matter on it. it wouldn't even if tesla didn't market their cars in the UK - which they do.
on your first point, apples and oranges. the prius bit was obvious comic exaggeration stating an opinion. the tesla bit isn't comic exaggeration, it is an alleged misrepresentation of facts. it wasn't the lawyers that decided whether or not to sue; it was the sales executives who got tired of hearing "the most-watched automobile program in the world said that your car breaks down, doesn't do what you're telling me it does, and the technology isn't up to real-world use. who is lying?"
i agree with gp; it's nice to see a lawsuit that is "you are lying and costing me money, please stop," instead of "your product bears a similarity to my product, so now i have to sue you for godzilla dollars, lest i lose my patents."
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really, the summary/approval assholes need not be kicked for this one. the articles are truly as clueless as the summary claims.
first poster suggested the articles are FUD, but that implies sinister intent (imo). i see this more as ignorance towards the company's policies.
FTA, there's a rad $35 model in development that will have more RAM by a hair, an extra USB, and ethernet. will probably get a few myself.
i jailbroke mine to run tethering software without having to pay the carrier a fee to use the data i already paid for
then i switched to the n1, and no longer had to power off the device -> hold home button and power button till i see the logo -> let go of home button -> plug in USB etc etc etc to be able to run software i wanted. i owned my device right out the box.
city* damnit
oh god, now the post spam cooldown
way to go internet, helping a country attack some people
yes, yes, he got his digit wrong, good thing you pointed that out (and got beaten to the punch by someone who didn't feel the need to be a douche).
being snarky won't help you get 10.6 or 10.7 installed, nor will it make his point false.
ms never said to re-install windows in the first place, headlines on sites like slashdot mis-reported it to begin with. from slashdot's summary:
"'If your system does get infected with Trojan:Win32/Popureb.E, we advise you to fix the MBR and then use a recovery CD to restore your system to a pre-infected state,' said Feng. A recovery disc returns Windows to its factory settings."
the summary blurted that the recovery disc returns Windows to its factory settings, and left out how it also is the boot environment for restoring from windows backups, which Feng was clearly talking about ("restore your system to a pre-infected state").
i think you've told a version of this story once before (either that, or it is a common enough experience?)
regardless, it's interesting. a collection of stories like this (with real details) would be a good read
why?
Not quite. It has the user's email address in a tag which is easily removed.
which will rarely be done by Joe Filesharer
Which is not illegal to do, and won't happen anyway.
at this point you are proving to be either ill-informed, or sitting in the RDF (both?). there is little hope in helping you understand the gravity and the possibilities; bummer.
spell out the process for you:
Person A downloads album from iTunes. the songs are watermarked with personally-identifiable metadata that indicate to Apple who bought them (this is current fact, not speculation).
Person A shares the album using favorite method with Person B (which is illegal for Person A to do).
Person B uploads his music collection to iCloud.
one year goes by
RIAA subpoenas Apple for the metadata, and records of who bought what.
Apple happily complies, as it isn't interested in the legal costs involved with a privacy battle it will lose.
RIAA parses the data, finds Person A illegally shared the album, adds them to the "to be sued" list.
the only way to avoid this situation would be if apple edited the music files that are updated to iCloud, laundering them for the customer. this won't happen because a) their RIAA contacts would have a fit, b) they would have to inform the public that their "stored" data is being altered -which they haven't - and c) it is an extra cost they just don't want.
it is a little naïve to assume apple hasn't considered this
it is a lot naïve to assume that RIAA and the current content producer-friendly presidential administration (and courts) won't consider capitalizing by subpoenaing user information
you're right, that is a sweet deal. after a rocky ride with t-mobile (their coverage area, not their service), i got in the habit of only thinking of ATT/VZW/sprint. but virgin mobile does get access in tons of places with the sprint network, so that is a pretty good value
check the link i posted. the majority of people do consume less than 200MB of data.
personally i peak out at about 150MB on cellular and 1GB on wifi (according to NetSentry.
that 150MB is google maps for turn-by-turn GPS and pandora while driving (about an hour a day) and various web.
i can't imagine what emails i could get on my cell phone that would add up to 200MB/month. even if i could - them's the breaks. like it or not, it costs more to do more; i would probably just bill work for the extra data plan if i needed it.
if they had a sub-1GB plan for less money, i would be pretty excited
as it stands, AT&T's 200MB plan is still the best value for the majority of cellular data users, even compared to unlimited plans
hijacking first thread to link the source (subscription/university login req'd), since the posted article doesn't.
it is not a "review of a review," it is a direct link to a review, and a brief description of the link by the submitter. this is actually how slashdot works.
the news is the fifteen+ pages of information, tips, and comparative benchmarks on the new interface.
since there was less than two minutes between the story getting posted and you feverishly working for a snarky-first-post to jack up your karma, i'll forgive you for not noticing.
enjoy the mercy. next time, rtfa.
irrelevant commentator is irrelevant
No, he's saying that a man that obviously hasn't mastered building his own infrastructure is nowhere near qualified to be asking someone else to be the infrastructure for him.
as AC pointed out, that doesn't make any sense.
It is also pretty obvious that the Submitter never bothered to do any basic research on cloud services, otherwise he'd have never posted this question in the first place.
research is looking for information. surely he has done (is doing) solo research. regardless, what crime is being committed by asking peers their experiences on a matter? i think i would actually include that as a necessary step in any preliminary research.
truly, if you have no experiences worth contributing, keep it to yourself, instead of getting mad at some guy for using the Ask Slashdot feature as it was intended.
logic is trumping tradition.
welcome to the future.
not sure what the /. issue with the guy is
ed bott makes a living writing privately (for news sites and publishing his own books) on technology topics, mostly about windows - he likes windows, he writes about it, and publishes his work. getting paid to do what you like in a field that you like doesn't make you a shill. it makes you happy. it's a pretty cynical worldview, to assume that people aren't doing honest things because they like them, but instead dishonest things because a MegaCorp is paying them BIG BUX
on TFA, i don't see what "bias" you want to find in facts - the document exists. apple documents have an anti-apple bias, is what you are trying to say? facts have an anti-apple bias? of course not, that's silly.
disagreed
when people are filthy, lying, ignorant sons of bitches, it feels great to remind them as much.
australia is hardly a "big" country in the way the us is; it is surely spacious, but saying it has a modest population is being liberal. 2009 census data pins its population at 22 million, compared to the us at over 300 million.
in the example of the roads, google results pin america at having 4.9 million miles of roads, compared to almost a million in australia; both have surely increased since said publications (plus or minus their accuracy). saying australia has 1/5 the amount of roads and related transportation infrastructure is probably a good guess.
citing australia as a "big" country and then making that a logical link to saying a truly "big" country should be able to do something with similar swiftness is like comparing apples to... really small apples, ones roughly 1/5 the size of a normal apple.
the point isn't that you can use android on x86 (chips will always leapfrog eachother season to season on performance capabilities)
the point is that once android does support x86, theoretically there could be more tablet homogenization - a company could release the same model running both android and, say, windows, or you could purchase one and install your favorite linux distro, customized to suit the tablet
being in a different country doesn't have much of a matter on it. it wouldn't even if tesla didn't market their cars in the UK - which they do.
on your first point, apples and oranges. the prius bit was obvious comic exaggeration stating an opinion. the tesla bit isn't comic exaggeration, it is an alleged misrepresentation of facts. it wasn't the lawyers that decided whether or not to sue; it was the sales executives who got tired of hearing "the most-watched automobile program in the world said that your car breaks down, doesn't do what you're telling me it does, and the technology isn't up to real-world use. who is lying?"
i agree with gp; it's nice to see a lawsuit that is "you are lying and costing me money, please stop," instead of "your product bears a similarity to my product, so now i have to sue you for godzilla dollars, lest i lose my patents."