why would it affect Apple at all? This was an AT&T issue.
I admit, I don't own an iPad so I might be slightly mistaken as to how this works but from the summery it mentions that Apple is the one that 'users, who must provide the company with their email addresses to activate their iPads' which indicates Apple is the wanting the email, not AT&T. Now if Apple wants the emails, why would if have a 3rd party (AT&T) hold on to this data and not just upload it all to their servers every few hours and delete the AT&T server of this information? Now, if Apple is the one who wants the emails then I'd view it to be more Apples fault for not being in more control over the information it is requesting from its customers.
Microsoft has had their OS on tablets longer than you've probably been using computers. At least 10 years. If you have been using computers longer than that you should be ashamed of yourself for being so slow to know this. It's been mentioned numerous times around here and several of them have had moderate success.
Yes, I know, I had one. But those were a desktop OS smacked into a tablet-style device, if you wish to get technical about it. These newer tablets are made with the touchscreen in mind at the beginning, not the end. Though if you prefer, we could also claim that the old Palm PDA's are tablets that predate all of this...
If an Android tablet is put on sale in a forest and nobody buys it, does anybody care?
Maybe a lack of a massive marketing campaign? Notice how the older models of androids didn't sell well, but when the Motorola Droid did a huge marketing campaign, it sold amazingly well? Same (more or less) tech, just had the marketing to go behind it. Never underestimate the power of a good marketing budget.
RE: "They just want to pay a reasonable price for a game,..."
When I was a teenager I had friends that had hundreds of games for their Commodore 64.
I ask one of them if they had played all of them.
He told me he barely played any and that he spent most of his computer time copying the games themselves.
That's when I realized that for some, copying games is "The Game". Collecting them, sorting them in alphabetical order, showing them off to your friends, trading with your friends and strangers, talking about the difficulty of copying some games. Nobody would pay for any of this but just "having them" was the thrill. The fact that it was "bad to copy" just adds to it.
In the end it's like pokemon: Gotta catch 'em all.
The companies should worry more about the guys who only copy one or 2 games and play the FSCK out of them. THOSE are the REAL lost sales.
Like collecting baseball cards or stamps, just virtual. Its not about using them, it's about being able to display them.
Notice how *some* people will get utterly smashed when attending an event with an open bar? They're quite eager to consume far more than they might usually have...
Exactly, and the same concepts should be applied to this 'study'. When you have to pay for something, your not as likely to get everything you want. But when its free, hey why not? Not like you paid for it. Like free samples in a store, everyone want one because they are free, not because of what they are.
"Small businesses are just that, small and often don't bother having an online presence."
Small businesses that don't have an online presence aren't going to be in business much longer. It's *considerably* more expensive to be in the phone book than it is to have a simple web site. Spending money on phone books in this day & age is simply a bad financial decision.
As I mentioned, I'm in a small town. Stating a small business that doesn't have an online presence aren't going to be in business much longer is a big city thing, and is completely the opposite for a town like I live in. Though I did forget to mention I live in a party town, and in a party town most people don't bother to own computers and smartphones to check up internet websites. If they need to check email they go to the cyber cafe, otherwise a laptop/smartphone is a) an expense not needed which also leads to: b) a computer/smartphone can get lost/broken easier here then in a city since people like to party here. So while not having an online presence in a city would be bad for a business, in a small town like this it's an un-needed expense that could mean maintaining it could put you out of business since most won't look at your site and so you'd be throwing away money with little to no return.
I'm in Canada and I've tried looking for basics like the phone number of places I know exist to find either no online listing or a wrong number that was changed years ago. I also live in a party town with people passing through that stay for typically 3ish months so the online sites just don't care (also the population hovers between 3-5k people depending on the time of year). The physical phone book is typically kept well up to date since its wht the tourist use (most don't bring laptops since they are on vacation and leave cellphones at home since they are also out of country so internet listings aren't useful to them). Because of this the online listings are very poor since the money and/or interesting isn't there to keep those ones up to . College kids tend to stay longer in a town like yours then people stay in a town like here, so losing a physical book in a small town like mine isn't good (and why not many places have an internet presence since it doesn't help with in town business)
Yellow Pages Group Co. said last week that it would no longer deliver residential phone books in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Ottawa-Gatineau, Montreal and Quebec City, except to customers who request them.
Good luck with that though... big companies like this often outsource their call centers to places like India that use internet sites to locate you. And I've had issues with that and them just finding the completely wrong address (not to mention I now live on a really small street that just doesn't exist on a map...). Called Telus once to have my internet transfered to a new place and they said they'd send someone which they did... to an address a few blocks away... when I called up to complain about my internet still not hooked up they informed me they sent someone and we managed to figure out it was a few blocks away. They did get it right the second time though
This might be an interesting concept but what about the follow through? It mentions about online directories which might be fine and great for major cities but they are horrible for small towns (like the one I live in). I find it really hard if possible to find many of the local businesses from online information mainly because 1) I'm in a small town and so I'm guessing I don't count as a big enough market and 2) Small businesses are just that, small and often don't bother having an online presence. Now if companies like the Yellow Pages are going to put a solid effort in keeping their online site up to date then it might not be so bad. But I keep finding that they don't and small businesses are the ones that pay the penalty and the big ones just expect you to just use their sites 'store locater' so they don't care
There's just one problem with all this: there's no evidence that SPOT is actually effective.
And this matters to airport security because?
Its to make you think that someone is watching out for you, even if they aren't really doing anything. It gives the illusion of security which helps some feel safer, like having a gun makes some people feel safer even though they could never bring themselves to shoot someone with it even in defense. Sometimes pseudo-security is better then no security to many people.
nobody wants to pay to download Wired magazine's 500 megabyte iPad edition (which is what happens when you cancel flash support and leave everyone scrambling).
How is it Apples fault that Adobes "solution" for a lack of flash, is to bundle a heap of IMAGESinto an App?
Maybe Apple should have allowed Flash to run on the iPad then? At the moment they say they are against Flash but the problem is, whats the alternative? HTML5 is still too much in it's infancy to be an acceptable alternative, and things like this 500mg iPad magazine shows that the other option isn't a good option since the new data plans listed are what? 2 gigs max I think before extra charges? So 4 magazines and there goes your bandwidth and you have to pay more to surf the internet or only download the magazines when your on a wifi-only link (which kinda kills the whole 3g network concept). In the end at the worst case is that Apple should allow at least a watered down version of Flash to run since it would be better then nothing and then make it obsolete when a better technology shows up.
Every machine here in Nevada says right on the front "malfunction voids play" or something similar.
Yeah, but the casino owners will happily allow you to pump more money thats non-refundable into those malfunctioning machines while skipping out on the payouts due to that 'malunction voids play' sticker.
This came in via e-mail: Many pundits have made a lot of the fact that the Mac was the first to be exploited in the Pwn2Own contest. Was the choice of the Mac as the first target because the hardware/operating system combo was more desirable as a prize than the commodity Windows laptops of the other competitors? Or was it just because Macintosh exploits occur with much less frequency than Windows exploits and would therefore be more newsworthy?
So until this year, applications on Apple were way easier to exploit than Windows. This is because Apple had weak ASLR and no DEP while Windows had full ASLR and DEP. This year, Snow Leopard has DEP, so its no longer trivial to exploit. In fact, I have lots of bugs in Safari that I easily could have exploited on Leopard but will be very difficult on Snow Leopard. So it used to be that that it was much worse, but now its mostly comparable (although still slightly behind)
Causing a giant round of layoffs at the factory would do fucking wonders for the suicide rate wouldn't it? Aren't you posting here today because Apple _did_ something about it, however small?
A factory would have made the changes when the idea was suggested avoiding a giant round of layoffs if it was a legitimate company. Companies don't just switch manufacturers on a moments notice since its expensive to have to find and secure a new manufacturer, what companies do is make their complaints and issues known and then act accordingly to how things continue in the near future. You think that a giant layoff would do wonders for the suicide rate? Imagine the suicide rate amongst the owners of the company would have to find one of their big contracts just up and left them for their refusal to make simple changes when requested? And this is a PR stunt by Apple due to all the bad press they got for it. If it was something they wanted to do out of the kindness of their hearts, they would have done something about it years ago and not wait until it went viral all over the net.
And, what exactly is ChromeOS? I haven't fooled with it in a couple months - but the last time I looked, ChromeOS was just a highly customized Cloud Linux.
While I admit I haven't really played with it, it seems to be more of an OS for smartbooks and not really a typical note/netbook OS. So it seems like a Cloud Linux, and considering if it's on a 'always connected' smartbook, it might truly be made and designed as a Cloud Linux designed to utilize the Google cloud. Similar to how a smartphone is designed to be best used when 'always connected'.
I assume Google is going to continue to produce software for Windows (Google Earth, Chrome, Google Talk etc) Windows is still the largest single operating system and not producing clients for it would mean losing a huge segment of the software market.
So how exactly do they plan on developing, testing and releasing Windows software when there is not a single Windows system in their entire company? Do they plan to compile the binaries to win32 or win64 binaries and then release them completely untested and hope that they actually work as expected on their native platform?
I'm guessing in a Virtual System that has little to no internet access, just enough to test the programs and only running in a virtual session as long as needed so the main system can't be compromised.
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why would it affect Apple at all? This was an AT&T issue.
I admit, I don't own an iPad so I might be slightly mistaken as to how this works but from the summery it mentions that Apple is the one that 'users, who must provide the company with their email addresses to activate their iPads' which indicates Apple is the wanting the email, not AT&T. Now if Apple wants the emails, why would if have a 3rd party (AT&T) hold on to this data and not just upload it all to their servers every few hours and delete the AT&T server of this information? Now, if Apple is the one who wants the emails then I'd view it to be more Apples fault for not being in more control over the information it is requesting from its customers.
Microsoft has had their OS on tablets longer than you've probably been using computers. At least 10 years. If you have been using computers longer than that you should be ashamed of yourself for being so slow to know this. It's been mentioned numerous times around here and several of them have had moderate success.
Yes, I know, I had one. But those were a desktop OS smacked into a tablet-style device, if you wish to get technical about it. These newer tablets are made with the touchscreen in mind at the beginning, not the end. Though if you prefer, we could also claim that the old Palm PDA's are tablets that predate all of this...
How come that never made a splash?
If an Android tablet is put on sale in a forest and nobody buys it, does anybody care?
Maybe a lack of a massive marketing campaign? Notice how the older models of androids didn't sell well, but when the Motorola Droid did a huge marketing campaign, it sold amazingly well? Same (more or less) tech, just had the marketing to go behind it. Never underestimate the power of a good marketing budget.
The iPad is out NOW. Windows tablets will be out SOON. Why be so late to the game? I don't understand the slowness of FOSS to catch Win/Mac.
And the android tablet was out in 2009. I don't understand why the Win/Mac are so slow to catch up...
RE: "They just want to pay a reasonable price for a game,..."
When I was a teenager I had friends that had hundreds of games for their Commodore 64. I ask one of them if they had played all of them. He told me he barely played any and that he spent most of his computer time copying the games themselves. That's when I realized that for some, copying games is "The Game". Collecting them, sorting them in alphabetical order, showing them off to your friends, trading with your friends and strangers, talking about the difficulty of copying some games. Nobody would pay for any of this but just "having them" was the thrill. The fact that it was "bad to copy" just adds to it.
In the end it's like pokemon: Gotta catch 'em all.
The companies should worry more about the guys who only copy one or 2 games and play the FSCK out of them. THOSE are the REAL lost sales.
Like collecting baseball cards or stamps, just virtual. Its not about using them, it's about being able to display them.
Notice how *some* people will get utterly smashed when attending an event with an open bar? They're quite eager to consume far more than they might usually have...
Exactly, and the same concepts should be applied to this 'study'. When you have to pay for something, your not as likely to get everything you want. But when its free, hey why not? Not like you paid for it. Like free samples in a store, everyone want one because they are free, not because of what they are.
"Small businesses are just that, small and often don't bother having an online presence." Small businesses that don't have an online presence aren't going to be in business much longer. It's *considerably* more expensive to be in the phone book than it is to have a simple web site. Spending money on phone books in this day & age is simply a bad financial decision.
As I mentioned, I'm in a small town. Stating a small business that doesn't have an online presence aren't going to be in business much longer is a big city thing, and is completely the opposite for a town like I live in. Though I did forget to mention I live in a party town, and in a party town most people don't bother to own computers and smartphones to check up internet websites. If they need to check email they go to the cyber cafe, otherwise a laptop/smartphone is a) an expense not needed which also leads to: b) a computer/smartphone can get lost/broken easier here then in a city since people like to party here. So while not having an online presence in a city would be bad for a business, in a small town like this it's an un-needed expense that could mean maintaining it could put you out of business since most won't look at your site and so you'd be throwing away money with little to no return.
I'm in Canada and I've tried looking for basics like the phone number of places I know exist to find either no online listing or a wrong number that was changed years ago. I also live in a party town with people passing through that stay for typically 3ish months so the online sites just don't care (also the population hovers between 3-5k people depending on the time of year). The physical phone book is typically kept well up to date since its wht the tourist use (most don't bring laptops since they are on vacation and leave cellphones at home since they are also out of country so internet listings aren't useful to them). Because of this the online listings are very poor since the money and/or interesting isn't there to keep those ones up to . College kids tend to stay longer in a town like yours then people stay in a town like here, so losing a physical book in a small town like mine isn't good (and why not many places have an internet presence since it doesn't help with in town business)
From TFA...
Good luck with that though... big companies like this often outsource their call centers to places like India that use internet sites to locate you. And I've had issues with that and them just finding the completely wrong address (not to mention I now live on a really small street that just doesn't exist on a map...). Called Telus once to have my internet transfered to a new place and they said they'd send someone which they did... to an address a few blocks away... when I called up to complain about my internet still not hooked up they informed me they sent someone and we managed to figure out it was a few blocks away. They did get it right the second time though
This might be an interesting concept but what about the follow through? It mentions about online directories which might be fine and great for major cities but they are horrible for small towns (like the one I live in). I find it really hard if possible to find many of the local businesses from online information mainly because 1) I'm in a small town and so I'm guessing I don't count as a big enough market and 2) Small businesses are just that, small and often don't bother having an online presence. Now if companies like the Yellow Pages are going to put a solid effort in keeping their online site up to date then it might not be so bad. But I keep finding that they don't and small businesses are the ones that pay the penalty and the big ones just expect you to just use their sites 'store locater' so they don't care
There's just one problem with all this: there's no evidence that SPOT is actually effective.
And this matters to airport security because?
Its to make you think that someone is watching out for you, even if they aren't really doing anything. It gives the illusion of security which helps some feel safer, like having a gun makes some people feel safer even though they could never bring themselves to shoot someone with it even in defense. Sometimes pseudo-security is better then no security to many people.
1-frown refund?
I'd like to see that... Now where is that patent application form?
Hell, I'd love to see a middle-finger command to see a cheaper price if I feel the suggested one is way too much.
Maybe Apple should have allowed Flash to run on the iPad then? At the moment they say they are against Flash but the problem is, whats the alternative? HTML5 is still too much in it's infancy to be an acceptable alternative, and things like this 500mg iPad magazine shows that the other option isn't a good option since the new data plans listed are what? 2 gigs max I think before extra charges? So 4 magazines and there goes your bandwidth and you have to pay more to surf the internet or only download the magazines when your on a wifi-only link (which kinda kills the whole 3g network concept). In the end at the worst case is that Apple should allow at least a watered down version of Flash to run since it would be better then nothing and then make it obsolete when a better technology shows up.
Every machine here in Nevada says right on the front "malfunction voids play" or something similar.
Yeah, but the casino owners will happily allow you to pump more money thats non-refundable into those malfunctioning machines while skipping out on the payouts due to that 'malunction voids play' sticker.
How about this Android tablet? Or this soon to be released Android tablet? Or many android prototype tablets to peek at.
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]14,323 plays
Grrrrrrrrrrrr
AT&T doesn't want it's iPhone and iPad users from hearing that message.
I always figured they hacked the prize they valued most and that's why Windows was on the bottom of the list.
Wrong. They always hacked the Mac because Apple is way easier to hack then Microsoft
From the links article:
This came in via e-mail: Many pundits have made a lot of the fact that the Mac was the first to be exploited in the Pwn2Own contest. Was the choice of the Mac as the first target because the hardware/operating system combo was more desirable as a prize than the commodity Windows laptops of the other competitors? Or was it just because Macintosh exploits occur with much less frequency than Windows exploits and would therefore be more newsworthy?
So until this year, applications on Apple were way easier to exploit than Windows. This is because Apple had weak ASLR and no DEP while Windows had full ASLR and DEP. This year, Snow Leopard has DEP, so its no longer trivial to exploit. In fact, I have lots of bugs in Safari that I easily could have exploited on Leopard but will be very difficult on Snow Leopard. So it used to be that that it was much worse, but now its mostly comparable (although still slightly behind)
And this is from Pwn2Own 2010.
Causing a giant round of layoffs at the factory would do fucking wonders for the suicide rate wouldn't it? Aren't you posting here today because Apple _did_ something about it, however small?
A factory would have made the changes when the idea was suggested avoiding a giant round of layoffs if it was a legitimate company. Companies don't just switch manufacturers on a moments notice since its expensive to have to find and secure a new manufacturer, what companies do is make their complaints and issues known and then act accordingly to how things continue in the near future. You think that a giant layoff would do wonders for the suicide rate? Imagine the suicide rate amongst the owners of the company would have to find one of their big contracts just up and left them for their refusal to make simple changes when requested? And this is a PR stunt by Apple due to all the bad press they got for it. If it was something they wanted to do out of the kindness of their hearts, they would have done something about it years ago and not wait until it went viral all over the net.
Yes, but one piece of software is one thing, a full blown OS is something else
And yet the Pwn2Own competitions keep showing that Macs aren't hard to hack...
However, the main issue with Chrome OS is the vapor it's made out of.
Chrome OS isn't vapor... It is still a beta so its not fully functional, but it is real.
And, what exactly is ChromeOS? I haven't fooled with it in a couple months - but the last time I looked, ChromeOS was just a highly customized Cloud Linux.
While I admit I haven't really played with it, it seems to be more of an OS for smartbooks and not really a typical note/netbook OS. So it seems like a Cloud Linux, and considering if it's on a 'always connected' smartbook, it might truly be made and designed as a Cloud Linux designed to utilize the Google cloud. Similar to how a smartphone is designed to be best used when 'always connected'.
OK, who has the wall charger? What? You left it at home?
It's ok, we'll just use these 'special' jumper cables. I saw it in a movie once, what could go wrong?
I assume Google is going to continue to produce software for Windows (Google Earth, Chrome, Google Talk etc) Windows is still the largest single operating system and not producing clients for it would mean losing a huge segment of the software market. So how exactly do they plan on developing, testing and releasing Windows software when there is not a single Windows system in their entire company? Do they plan to compile the binaries to win32 or win64 binaries and then release them completely untested and hope that they actually work as expected on their native platform?
I'm guessing in a Virtual System that has little to no internet access, just enough to test the programs and only running in a virtual session as long as needed so the main system can't be compromised.
If they can make their own internal version of Ubuntu (Goobuntu), that makes me think they have the budget and programmers to do that.