It's been pointed out in many cases the "multiple safeguards" were not properly implemented or working prior to the disaster but they pushed ahead anyhow. Cars are built with airbags and seatbelts, but if you know the airbag is deactivated and your seat belt is cut and you don't bother to fix them, then you have nobody to blame but yourself when you fly through the windshield during a crash.
Well on my carrier my 6GB plan costs $30/month, the next cheapest option is only 500MB which I easily go over. I tether a lot from my phone to my netbook while on the bus commuting to watch streaming video. Very convenient and makes the hour commute much more pleasant.
At times my phone's 3G throughput is even faster than my ADSL at home when Bell decides to throttle my connection into oblivion because my roommates start up a BitTorrent. I just tether to my desktop and while the latency is terrible for online games, I can still browse at a reasonable rate.
Easy, just hide the code that steals the user's information inside a giant fart button and it'll whisk through the approval process without anyone thinking twice about it.
This assumes that the consumers are making an informed choice, which a large portion of the target demographic of the various iDevices I imagine aren't. Everyone keeps echoing how this device is not for "geeks" to silence the only people who are informed about the lack of freedom and the implications.
This is like saying that there's no harm in selling melamine filled milk because you don't have to buy it and there's plenty of other milk you can buy instead. Nobody's requiring you to drink milk in the first place.
I think this is more a testament to the fact that crappy programmers will write crappy code in any language, instead of showing that all languages are equally as crappy for writing secure code. If the same person wrote the same program in different languages then you might have a fair comparison, otherwise this report just shows a similar ratio of bad programmers across different languages which I don't find all that surprising.
The real point of this is that Bell is allowed to impose this pricing on their wholesale customers, IE other ISPs that lease Bell's ADSL lines. For example my ISP is not Bell, however my ADSL line runs through a Bell DSLAM which then pushes the traffic to my ISP, thus my ISP will be forced to start billing me for usage because Bell will be billing them per GB instead of just for my line.
Basically the CRTC just sounded the death knell for the smaller ISPs who stand next to no chance at competing against a giant company that already is allowed to throttle their traffic and limit bandwidth to 5Mbit, and now is allowed to set their bandwidth costs.
I think you have it backwards. Major vendors like Dell sell computers without Windows on them (with Linux instead), and last time I checked if you build your own PC (something an Apple user could never dream of) nothing obligates you to put Windows on it. How about you show me a computer that Apple sells without their OS pre-installed?
You can have a PC without Windows, but you can't have an Apple without Mac OS (at least installed somewhere).
What you said makes sense which is that Apple doesn't want to be the ones selling porn via the App Store. However that is not exacty what Jobs said which is to keep it "off the iPhone" that would imply Mobile Safari too. Which of those he meant is an excersize left to the reader.
If you can ask for 2 copies and your copier only scans once, how do you think it prints the second copy? Sure while many lower-end copiers would use cheap volatile RAM for this kind of task which would be wiped simply by unplugging the unit, some use more persistent storage to make it more resilient against interruptions or to store information you want to keep even if the printer is unplugged (like for storing jobs/faxes so they aren't lost if the power goes out before they're fully printed, internal settings, and detailed print history).
Yeah I mean the last guy who lost an iPhone prototype killed himself. Maybe this is like a public suicide watch notice. Or the media frenzy may just drive him to the same fate.
I still think it was a dick move from Gizmodo and feel bad for the guy.
I can see it already, the financial institutions will all cry "but these magical formulas are what makes us money and if we make them available our competitors will be able to use them too"! And of course they would also scramble to hire some of the winners of the Underhanded C Contest: http://underhanded.xcott.com/
You figure if the iPad was actually a different architecture with some kind of ARM emulator as suggested, that they would have pushed this move a long ago instead of days before Adobe's CS5 release when the iPad is already in consumers' hands and also flogged this new magical OS 4.0 speed boost during the developer's talk.
And ultimately Apple is still treating developers like they don't know what their doing trying to "protect" them from the evils of alternate development tools. Sure if Apple changes architecture then they would have updated tools ready on day 0 so there is no gap, but the rest would quickly follow suit unless Apple decides to make a completely closed hardware platform as well.
Personally I find Safari to be very sluggish on my iPhone 3G, even after a page shows up often it doesn't respond to my swipes or taps to start scrolling or zooming the page right away. Even worse is sometimes these missed gestures then get misinterpreted as me clicking on a link which starts the cycle of having to reload the page I was trying to view in the first place. Meanwhile Opera Mini while it is lightning fast and responsive, doesn't always render correctly especially when it comes to interactive content like scripts. The "only zoomed in or zoomed out all the way" works wonderfully on some sites and terribly on others. So I consider it to be the right tool for the right job. For quickly viewing simple websites like news or blogs Opera Mini is delightful. For more complicated and rich websites that Opera Mini can't hack, Safari gets it done slow and steady.
Except a lot of kids there don't have the luxury of their own gaming PC at home and flock to 24/7 Internet cafes which may not be the safest places at night.
Did you even read the summary? The guy being jailed is the guy appearing before the court. And also yes, you can be jailed for sending death threats even by e-mail.
So making it easier for developers to put ads into their apps is going to make less apps with ads in them? Really?
What Apple is doing is clear as day: Developer makes a paid ad-free app and Apple gets a cut of the sale. Developer also makes free ad-supported app and Apple gets nothing while a cut of the ad revenue is going to some other online ad company. Apple bakes their own system in the OS since they can stamp out the competition and drink the other ad company's milkshake. Underhanded capitalism wins.
Well when you consider how many ads on the web are flash, when they blocked this from their platform they had to do something to appease the media overloads for interactive and annoying ways to push products to the masses!
Damn just as I submit that addendum about the changes to the SDK, it gets tacked on here! Seriously, I hope developers start to second guess their future with Apple and start looking to more open pastures. Also the fact that the iPhone 3G still won't be able to multitask is getting commonly overlooked in the roar of Apple cultists collectively orgasming over a feature everyone else has had for eons. I may just stick with my jailbroken 3.1.2 until my contract is up and I get a shiny new Android phone.
Apple is building up quite the dominance in the mobile market, which is going to be their undoing.
Consider for a moment that Microsoft was hit for an anti-trust suit in the EU regarding bundling IE with Windows, despite the fact that there are a plethora of browsers readily available for people to choose. Now look at Apple not only bundling Safari on the iPhone/iTouch/iPad, but putting very explicitly in their terms that they can reject an app for duplicating functionality.
Here's a little fun fact of you: Opera was the leader behind smacking down Microsoft's browser monopoly leading to the browser ballot, and with the submission of Opera Mini to Apple they are most definitely gunning for them too. You can't deny that now with the trifecta of popularity between the iTouch/iPhone/iPad that Apple is now enjoying a majority of the mobile market.
Apple has been basking in the shadow of Microsoft's dominant market position in the desktop market, but now they are running the game in mobile and about to get in a world of hurt.
I really love this argument of "what the market wants is always right".
People would rather buy products made in China/India/Taiwan/Philippines/(insert your favorite country here) for less money than products made in their own country for more, despite the impact of less jobs and less money remaining in their own country. Thus companies looking to make a fast dollar are forced to move jobs and money overseas at a faster and faster rate.
Where do you think your iPad was made? How much money and how many jobs do you think were invested overseas to bring this product to you in the middle of a economic crisis?
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It's been pointed out in many cases the "multiple safeguards" were not properly implemented or working prior to the disaster but they pushed ahead anyhow. Cars are built with airbags and seatbelts, but if you know the airbag is deactivated and your seat belt is cut and you don't bother to fix them, then you have nobody to blame but yourself when you fly through the windshield during a crash.
Well I dunno about you, but that strategy works on my toilet quite frequently. How different can it be?
And I bet you'll be able to pay cash too!
Well on my carrier my 6GB plan costs $30/month, the next cheapest option is only 500MB which I easily go over. I tether a lot from my phone to my netbook while on the bus commuting to watch streaming video. Very convenient and makes the hour commute much more pleasant. At times my phone's 3G throughput is even faster than my ADSL at home when Bell decides to throttle my connection into oblivion because my roommates start up a BitTorrent. I just tether to my desktop and while the latency is terrible for online games, I can still browse at a reasonable rate.
Easy, just hide the code that steals the user's information inside a giant fart button and it'll whisk through the approval process without anyone thinking twice about it.
This assumes that the consumers are making an informed choice, which a large portion of the target demographic of the various iDevices I imagine aren't. Everyone keeps echoing how this device is not for "geeks" to silence the only people who are informed about the lack of freedom and the implications.
This is like saying that there's no harm in selling melamine filled milk because you don't have to buy it and there's plenty of other milk you can buy instead. Nobody's requiring you to drink milk in the first place.
I think this is more a testament to the fact that crappy programmers will write crappy code in any language, instead of showing that all languages are equally as crappy for writing secure code. If the same person wrote the same program in different languages then you might have a fair comparison, otherwise this report just shows a similar ratio of bad programmers across different languages which I don't find all that surprising.
The real point of this is that Bell is allowed to impose this pricing on their wholesale customers, IE other ISPs that lease Bell's ADSL lines. For example my ISP is not Bell, however my ADSL line runs through a Bell DSLAM which then pushes the traffic to my ISP, thus my ISP will be forced to start billing me for usage because Bell will be billing them per GB instead of just for my line. Basically the CRTC just sounded the death knell for the smaller ISPs who stand next to no chance at competing against a giant company that already is allowed to throttle their traffic and limit bandwidth to 5Mbit, and now is allowed to set their bandwidth costs.
I think you have it backwards. Major vendors like Dell sell computers without Windows on them (with Linux instead), and last time I checked if you build your own PC (something an Apple user could never dream of) nothing obligates you to put Windows on it. How about you show me a computer that Apple sells without their OS pre-installed? You can have a PC without Windows, but you can't have an Apple without Mac OS (at least installed somewhere).
What you said makes sense which is that Apple doesn't want to be the ones selling porn via the App Store. However that is not exacty what Jobs said which is to keep it "off the iPhone" that would imply Mobile Safari too. Which of those he meant is an excersize left to the reader.
If you can ask for 2 copies and your copier only scans once, how do you think it prints the second copy? Sure while many lower-end copiers would use cheap volatile RAM for this kind of task which would be wiped simply by unplugging the unit, some use more persistent storage to make it more resilient against interruptions or to store information you want to keep even if the printer is unplugged (like for storing jobs/faxes so they aren't lost if the power goes out before they're fully printed, internal settings, and detailed print history).
Yeah I mean the last guy who lost an iPhone prototype killed himself. Maybe this is like a public suicide watch notice. Or the media frenzy may just drive him to the same fate.
I still think it was a dick move from Gizmodo and feel bad for the guy.
... firewalls would be so much simpler:
The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header
(I saw some other Slashdot comment with this link in it, but it just fits so well here!)
The only reason I might believe this wasn't intentional is that the last time an iPhone prototype was lost, someone died over it...
In before story of Cupertino "suicide".
I can see it already, the financial institutions will all cry "but these magical formulas are what makes us money and if we make them available our competitors will be able to use them too"! And of course they would also scramble to hire some of the winners of the Underhanded C Contest: http://underhanded.xcott.com/
You figure if the iPad was actually a different architecture with some kind of ARM emulator as suggested, that they would have pushed this move a long ago instead of days before Adobe's CS5 release when the iPad is already in consumers' hands and also flogged this new magical OS 4.0 speed boost during the developer's talk. And ultimately Apple is still treating developers like they don't know what their doing trying to "protect" them from the evils of alternate development tools. Sure if Apple changes architecture then they would have updated tools ready on day 0 so there is no gap, but the rest would quickly follow suit unless Apple decides to make a completely closed hardware platform as well.
Personally I find Safari to be very sluggish on my iPhone 3G, even after a page shows up often it doesn't respond to my swipes or taps to start scrolling or zooming the page right away. Even worse is sometimes these missed gestures then get misinterpreted as me clicking on a link which starts the cycle of having to reload the page I was trying to view in the first place. Meanwhile Opera Mini while it is lightning fast and responsive, doesn't always render correctly especially when it comes to interactive content like scripts. The "only zoomed in or zoomed out all the way" works wonderfully on some sites and terribly on others. So I consider it to be the right tool for the right job. For quickly viewing simple websites like news or blogs Opera Mini is delightful. For more complicated and rich websites that Opera Mini can't hack, Safari gets it done slow and steady.
Except a lot of kids there don't have the luxury of their own gaming PC at home and flock to 24/7 Internet cafes which may not be the safest places at night.
Maybe /. needs some new Sun hardware to run an Oracle back-end on!
Did you even read the summary? The guy being jailed is the guy appearing before the court. And also yes, you can be jailed for sending death threats even by e-mail.
So making it easier for developers to put ads into their apps is going to make less apps with ads in them? Really? What Apple is doing is clear as day: Developer makes a paid ad-free app and Apple gets a cut of the sale. Developer also makes free ad-supported app and Apple gets nothing while a cut of the ad revenue is going to some other online ad company. Apple bakes their own system in the OS since they can stamp out the competition and drink the other ad company's milkshake. Underhanded capitalism wins.
Well when you consider how many ads on the web are flash, when they blocked this from their platform they had to do something to appease the media overloads for interactive and annoying ways to push products to the masses!
Damn just as I submit that addendum about the changes to the SDK, it gets tacked on here! Seriously, I hope developers start to second guess their future with Apple and start looking to more open pastures. Also the fact that the iPhone 3G still won't be able to multitask is getting commonly overlooked in the roar of Apple cultists collectively orgasming over a feature everyone else has had for eons. I may just stick with my jailbroken 3.1.2 until my contract is up and I get a shiny new Android phone.
Apple is building up quite the dominance in the mobile market, which is going to be their undoing. Consider for a moment that Microsoft was hit for an anti-trust suit in the EU regarding bundling IE with Windows, despite the fact that there are a plethora of browsers readily available for people to choose. Now look at Apple not only bundling Safari on the iPhone/iTouch/iPad, but putting very explicitly in their terms that they can reject an app for duplicating functionality. Here's a little fun fact of you: Opera was the leader behind smacking down Microsoft's browser monopoly leading to the browser ballot, and with the submission of Opera Mini to Apple they are most definitely gunning for them too. You can't deny that now with the trifecta of popularity between the iTouch/iPhone/iPad that Apple is now enjoying a majority of the mobile market. Apple has been basking in the shadow of Microsoft's dominant market position in the desktop market, but now they are running the game in mobile and about to get in a world of hurt.
I really love this argument of "what the market wants is always right". People would rather buy products made in China/India/Taiwan/Philippines/(insert your favorite country here) for less money than products made in their own country for more, despite the impact of less jobs and less money remaining in their own country. Thus companies looking to make a fast dollar are forced to move jobs and money overseas at a faster and faster rate. Where do you think your iPad was made? How much money and how many jobs do you think were invested overseas to bring this product to you in the middle of a economic crisis?