That is a poor conclusion, while this may be true for previous instances, this is not necessarily true for all instances. It should be noted that a dictatorship can any apply to any form of governance, including fascism.
It should also be noted that non-democratic governments are not automatically against the people and not all democratic governments are for the people. What is important are the people in charge and whether they are working for themselves, and their friends, or whether they are working in the interests of the people.
- the iPhone is likely to use iTunes for the synching
- this limitation of only supporting Fairplay DRM and Audible DRM, has been around since the iTunes store came out
- iTunes allows you to use your own none-DRMed music
I don't know why the fuss is being made over the DRM on the iPhone, since this argument applies to any iPod out there, and therefore is neither new, nor iPhone specific.
Maybe this is where Google needs to provide multiple indexing algorithms. The idea by giving different result types ( most linked, closeness to keywords, flashiness, highest rated, totally random, etc ), this would make it harder for site spammers to know which algorithm to be targeting.
There are legitimate uses for HTML mail (think newsletters that people actually subscribe to because they want to stay informed). Unfortunately, just like anything -- on the internet or otherwise -- those that seek to abuse the system end up ruining it for everyone.
Well while this might break the ability to present a fully formatted web page in e-mail, it may just encourage people to host such content, instead of overloading e-mail with it. The added advantage of hosted content, is reduced storage needs. Anyhow, from what I can tell this won't stop people from creating formatted e-mail, just those trying to pump a whole website into a single e-mail.
The Patent office needs to wake up and start scrutinizing applications more.
This is probably also why IBM wants a notion of quality in patent applications. From some of the patents I have read you get so lost in the "patent speak", that it is hard to tell what is really being patented - think of this in the same way of trying to read a product description chock full of marketing buzzwords and double-speak. After a couple of hours of decoding the language, you might end finding that the whole document is actually describing the wheel, even though the whole thing was 20 pages long and it originally looked like it was trying to patent a new rocket engine. With this sort of problem its clear that time is wasted processing unnecessary patents, and why some patents get let through (fed up examiners).
I realise that some of this crazy writing style is attributed to legal type documents, but I have seen legal documents that were much easier to read and did not require a degree in lawyer-speak or double-speak.
And with a limited number of facilities able to produce BD disks compared to DVD houses refitted for HD-DVD production, that scarcity allows Sony more control.
And there is the problem, that also affects things like DRM: trying to control too much. The industry is so intent on controlling everything they own and not allow the indivual fair use, that they seem more ready to shoot themselves in the foot than letting have other people have any sense of using it a way that makes it worth while.
...and the iPhone is exactly what I want. But I'm not buying it. It's cool, but it's not $500 cool.
Well I am not going to make any analysis based on what people on/. say they won't pay, since in many cases the readership seems to want stuff for cheap or free (I know I am generalising, so don't take this personally). The market is not about the sort of people who say they love a Mac, but wouldn't even fork out for a Dell because it costs too much. The market is about people who are willing to a price for a well designed product, that works well, looks good and is easy to use.
I think it serves as a great tech demo. Features that work will start showing up elsewhere, patents or no patents. Phones are a commodity business, the iPhone is a boutique product. Too expensive for wide adoption, but maybe a portent of things to come.
Remember how people said the iPod was too expensive and had no market when it came out? I think the iPhone may be in the same situation. It certainly has a lot going for it, including integration, design and simplicity. When you consider that there is the $4000 Vertu, that is getting bought by people with deep pockets and those who want to make a statement, I believe there is market enough for a well design, easy to use Smart Phone. This may just be the product to bring the smart phone to the masses.
Well the Nintendo 64 came out in 1996 and it definetly had an analogue joystick (Nintendo 64) and it only had three pins for the joystick connection. I would be highly surprised if that was using an analogue connection to the console. Given that and the fact that any research and development was being done prior to the release (duh!), this further invalidates the claim to this patent.
their coverage is less than 50% it seems. Is that considered "good coverage" in USA? I would consider anything below 90% to be poor. Good coverage would be 95+%
If you look at the other GSM service providers, then you will find that Cingular has the best coverage amongst them, therefore offering the most potential to access new customers. Sprint was not an option, since they do not provide a GSM service. You will tend to find the most CDMA phones are ones that were popular as GSM phones and then adapted to be CDMA phones.
why no new mac systems / hardware? Where is the duel quad-core macpro?
Based on previous experience it is to prevent people getting overloaded with too much new stuff. Also, by using different press events for different products, Apple stays in the news and doesn't have products competing for news space.
I live in Canada and went on vacation for Christmas. To get to the place I wanted to go I needed to "transit" through the USA. First transiting through the states requires you go through immigrations and customs, as if you were going to stay in the country. On the way back to conform with US customs laws all passenger baggage was searched prior to boarding the aircraft. Then when you get to immigrations there is a person telling you which counter to go to. Since the person in front of me was taking so much time and the next counter was empty, I decided to change to another lane, where I was told to go back to the lane I was in - I am sure working for "Homeland Security" requires a degree in how to annoy the hell out of visiting people.
If they give the company a months notice to fix the issues then publishing them afterwards would be incentive for Apple to fix bugs there were made aware about, but failed to fix. Publishing before notifying Apple, sounds like just wanting free bragging rights.
WiiTalk doesn't exist, but I would love to see video chat capabilities added to the Wii. You already have a TV for the video and sound, the network connection for the data, so all that is left is keypad support and webcam support. Maybe they need to team up with Google, Jabber, or Skype - basically any company who can connect beyond their own network.
Makes use of copy-on-write; rather than overwriting old data with new data, it writes new data to a new location and then overwrites the pointer to the old data
Wouldn't that pose a problem for mmap?
It may do, but like many things there are alternative approaches.
From working on embedded hardware with flash memory, this makes me wonder whether possible addition of ZFS is meant to be for flash storage? Let me explain: flash memory has a fairly limited write-count, relative to hard disks, so to compensate for this memory is written in a circular fashion, to ensure that a given sector is written the least often possible. In addition to this, from what I can tell, Apple's main sales point are low profile computers and portables. The latter would benefit from flash storage as means of extending battery life, even if it is for a certain elements, such as for the OS which is accesed far more frequently than anything else on disk. Given this I wouldn't be surprised to see flash memory in future models of Apple portables, using ZFS, while HFS+ is still used for the hard disks.
This is pure speculation, but I feel that it has a high probabilty of being near the mark.
I read this on a messageboard years ago, it still makes me laugh to this day.
Yup, Gnutella, Azureus and Eclipse users (amongst others) running these programs on Linux, Windows, MacOS X, etc will be scratching their head wondering what voodoo their programs are coded in (it has to be voodoo if Java is dead).
Ah well, people living in their ivory tower will always assume the alteratives are dead.
The top menu nav bars all stayed dropped down on every page, obscuring other parts of the UI (bus schedule menu toggles, that kind of thing.) Couldn't click on any of the menu options, it'd just make the drop-down menu in question turn white. Looked like some crazy Javascript error. That's all.
If that is all, then with a good developer that should be solved in an hour.
While I would like web sites to work worth every web browser on the world, for one reason or another it is not going to happen. These days when doing my testing IE and Firefox are the main test-beds and sometimes followed by Safari and Opera. One thing you need to think about is when whether the issue is web-site related and which are browser related. For example, Safari on MacOS X has a number of issues, which the developments team is watching out for. Javascript is usually the main culrpit for web site breakages.
BTW Having not seen the web site with Opera, what was not working?
Slashdot Mirror
The other alternative is http://www.freshmeat.net/
Either that or someone high up in apple is really jumpy right now and it playing it safe to insane degrees.
After the stock options issue, you bet that they are being over cautious. Now whether they are interpreting the law correctly, is another matter.
I know you were joking, but here is a useful site http://www.ps3seeker.com/ for the PS3 and http://www.ps3seeker.com/wii for the Wii.
Communism is just a precursor of Dictatorship.
That is a poor conclusion, while this may be true for previous instances, this is not necessarily true for all instances. It should be noted that a dictatorship can any apply to any form of governance, including fascism.
It should also be noted that non-democratic governments are not automatically against the people and not all democratic governments are for the people. What is important are the people in charge and whether they are working for themselves, and their friends, or whether they are working in the interests of the people.
Given that:
- the iPhone is likely to use iTunes for the synching
- this limitation of only supporting Fairplay DRM and Audible DRM, has been around since the iTunes store came out
- iTunes allows you to use your own none-DRMed music
I don't know why the fuss is being made over the DRM on the iPhone, since this argument applies to any iPod out there, and therefore is neither new, nor iPhone specific.
Maybe this is where Google needs to provide multiple indexing algorithms. The idea by giving different result types ( most linked, closeness to keywords, flashiness, highest rated, totally random, etc ), this would make it harder for site spammers to know which algorithm to be targeting.
There are legitimate uses for HTML mail (think newsletters that people actually subscribe to because they want to stay informed). Unfortunately, just like anything -- on the internet or otherwise -- those that seek to abuse the system end up ruining it for everyone.
Well while this might break the ability to present a fully formatted web page in e-mail, it may just encourage people to host such content, instead of overloading e-mail with it. The added advantage of hosted content, is reduced storage needs. Anyhow, from what I can tell this won't stop people from creating formatted e-mail, just those trying to pump a whole website into a single e-mail.
Has the same thing been done for Blu-Ray yet? I would like to see DRM on both systems being shown as being useless.
Exactly how many intelligence agencies does the United States have?
And which one is capable of providing accurate information?
The Patent office needs to wake up and start scrutinizing applications more.
This is probably also why IBM wants a notion of quality in patent applications. From some of the patents I have read you get so lost in the "patent speak", that it is hard to tell what is really being patented - think of this in the same way of trying to read a product description chock full of marketing buzzwords and double-speak. After a couple of hours of decoding the language, you might end finding that the whole document is actually describing the wheel, even though the whole thing was 20 pages long and it originally looked like it was trying to patent a new rocket engine. With this sort of problem its clear that time is wasted processing unnecessary patents, and why some patents get let through (fed up examiners).
I realise that some of this crazy writing style is attributed to legal type documents, but I have seen legal documents that were much easier to read and did not require a degree in lawyer-speak or double-speak.
And with a limited number of facilities able to produce BD disks compared to DVD houses refitted for HD-DVD production, that scarcity allows Sony more control.
And there is the problem, that also affects things like DRM: trying to control too much. The industry is so intent on controlling everything they own and not allow the indivual fair use, that they seem more ready to shoot themselves in the foot than letting have other people have any sense of using it a way that makes it worth while.
...and the iPhone is exactly what I want. But I'm not buying it. It's cool, but it's not $500 cool.
/. say they won't pay, since in many cases the readership seems to want stuff for cheap or free (I know I am generalising, so don't take this personally). The market is not about the sort of people who say they love a Mac, but wouldn't even fork out for a Dell because it costs too much. The market is about people who are willing to a price for a well designed product, that works well, looks good and is easy to use.
Well I am not going to make any analysis based on what people on
I think it serves as a great tech demo. Features that work will start showing up elsewhere, patents or no patents. Phones are a commodity business, the iPhone is a boutique product. Too expensive for wide adoption, but maybe a portent of things to come.
Remember how people said the iPod was too expensive and had no market when it came out? I think the iPhone may be in the same situation. It certainly has a lot going for it, including integration, design and simplicity. When you consider that there is the $4000 Vertu, that is getting bought by people with deep pockets and those who want to make a statement, I believe there is market enough for a well design, easy to use Smart Phone. This may just be the product to bring the smart phone to the masses.
Well the Nintendo 64 came out in 1996 and it definetly had an analogue joystick (Nintendo 64) and it only had three pins for the joystick connection. I would be highly surprised if that was using an analogue connection to the console. Given that and the fact that any research and development was being done prior to the release (duh!), this further invalidates the claim to this patent.
their coverage is less than 50% it seems. Is that considered "good coverage" in USA? I would consider anything below 90% to be poor. Good coverage would be 95+%
If you look at the other GSM service providers, then you will find that Cingular has the best coverage amongst them, therefore offering the most potential to access new customers. Sprint was not an option, since they do not provide a GSM service. You will tend to find the most CDMA phones are ones that were popular as GSM phones and then adapted to be CDMA phones.
why no new mac systems / hardware?
Where is the duel quad-core macpro?
Based on previous experience it is to prevent people getting overloaded with too much new stuff. Also, by using different press events for different products, Apple stays in the news and doesn't have products competing for news space.
When you see Cingular's coverage, in the USA, its clear why Apple went with them:
GSM 1900, GSM 850, 3G 850/1900
I live in Canada and went on vacation for Christmas. To get to the place I wanted to go I needed to "transit" through the USA. First transiting through the states requires you go through immigrations and customs, as if you were going to stay in the country. On the way back to conform with US customs laws all passenger baggage was searched prior to boarding the aircraft. Then when you get to immigrations there is a person telling you which counter to go to. Since the person in front of me was taking so much time and the next counter was empty, I decided to change to another lane, where I was told to go back to the lane I was in - I am sure working for "Homeland Security" requires a degree in how to annoy the hell out of visiting people.
Opera also passes. What's your point? The summary said no browser on his computer passes ACID2, so I'm guessing he's not a Mac or Opera user.
:)
Yup, he is probably using Windows 98 or something. Of course there is the possibility he is using Lynx on a VT100 terminal
If they give the company a months notice to fix the issues then publishing them afterwards would be incentive for Apple to fix bugs there were made aware about, but failed to fix. Publishing before notifying Apple, sounds like just wanting free bragging rights.
WiiTalk doesn't exist, but I would love to see video chat capabilities added to the Wii. You already have a TV for the video and sound, the network connection for the data, so all that is left is keypad support and webcam support. Maybe they need to team up with Google, Jabber, or Skype - basically any company who can connect beyond their own network.
Makes use of copy-on-write; rather than overwriting old data with new data, it writes new data to a new location and then overwrites the pointer to the old data
It may do, but like many things there are alternative approaches.
From working on embedded hardware with flash memory, this makes me wonder whether possible addition of ZFS is meant to be for flash storage? Let me explain: flash memory has a fairly limited write-count, relative to hard disks, so to compensate for this memory is written in a circular fashion, to ensure that a given sector is written the least often possible. In addition to this, from what I can tell, Apple's main sales point are low profile computers and portables. The latter would benefit from flash storage as means of extending battery life, even if it is for a certain elements, such as for the OS which is accesed far more frequently than anything else on disk. Given this I wouldn't be surprised to see flash memory in future models of Apple portables, using ZFS, while HFS+ is still used for the hard disks.
This is pure speculation, but I feel that it has a high probabilty of being near the mark.
I read this on a messageboard years ago, it still makes me laugh to this day.
Yup, Gnutella, Azureus and Eclipse users (amongst others) running these programs on Linux, Windows, MacOS X, etc will be scratching their head wondering what voodoo their programs are coded in (it has to be voodoo if Java is dead).
Ah well, people living in their ivory tower will always assume the alteratives are dead.
The top menu nav bars all stayed dropped down on every page, obscuring other parts of the UI (bus schedule menu toggles, that kind of thing.) Couldn't click on any of the menu options, it'd just make the drop-down menu in question turn white. Looked like some crazy Javascript error. That's all.
If that is all, then with a good developer that should be solved in an hour.
While I would like web sites to work worth every web browser on the world, for one reason or another it is not going to happen. These days when doing my testing IE and Firefox are the main test-beds and sometimes followed by Safari and Opera. One thing you need to think about is when whether the issue is web-site related and which are browser related. For example, Safari on MacOS X has a number of issues, which the developments team is watching out for. Javascript is usually the main culrpit for web site breakages.
BTW Having not seen the web site with Opera, what was not working?