Yeah well if a sysadmin tells me not to make police officers hate me, I'll take the advice.
If a sysadmin tells me not to make sysadmins hate me, I'll take it as self-serving BS if it's not an overt threat.
So what if a police officer tells you not to make police officers hate you? Same self serving BS? Don't make anyone hate you seems to be a good idea to me.
and you can do Xbox 360 level graphics on a $300 android. Apple could easily subsidize that and get the cost down to $150. They probably wouldn't even lose that much money if they bought in quantity. The Shield's a niche item, I bet nVidia's not making that many of 'em.
Wait, so for $300 you can get something akin to a 7 year old device that cost $280! Sign me up. And why would Apple make an android device?
I get similar problems. I'm a media tech at a school and we have a managed IT provider (northgate). Staff are provided with a decentish win7 laptop and ALL desktops run citrix to give an identical VM to every user. That's all well and good for office and other general software most departments use but as I do most of the media stuff I need different equipment for very real reasons the main one being that since adobe CS4 the video packages are 64 bit only. Win7 laptops are 32bit and it doesn't matter what the desktop is because of citrix, I can alt-F4 out of that but then it counts as legacy equipment and IT won't touch it so the machine is blank as the discs aren't even held on site. Now normally you can get around that as adobe will give you a cs4 downgrade key for the video suite except the key is held by god knows who at northgate, but even if they did get the cs4 key they would charge the school to prepare another image with that on it, which the school won't pay for just for one user and I highly doubt it will get sorted in next years image.
I do have a mac that's decent and 64bit...but it's broken and has been away for repair twice. Which the school is paying for as it's also legacy and northgate won't touch it. So I have to steal a student mac to be able to video or audio edit which has only one spare USB slot, no SD slot and can only access half the network. I can photoshop on the laptop but because of the way this network runs (god knows how) I get 100-150 hard faults a second and it runs like ass, but I can't have it installed anywhere that it doesn't apart from the dead or borrowed mac.
It's not like I can't do my job but they do make it a lot more difficult than it needs to be.
It's a shame as well because the IT guys are good people and want to be able to help but can't because their hands are tied by northgate.
Let's pretend I host a website that allows you to download hundreds of novels and other works. These are all still under copyright in the USA. But I, and my website, are located in a place where all these works are in the public domain (e.g. Australia, and Russia).
If I then (perhaps I'm a masochist) visit the USA, can I be arrested and charged? Probably not actually.
I would say yeah. They've shown all you have to do to be arrested on entry to America is post a few ill thought tweets.
Freedom is only one way of achieving results, of which there are many ways.
If my goals can be achieved without "freedom", that's just fine.
Without this useless freedom your 'goal' is to mine 20 hours a day 200ft underground to provide power for the elite few living the good life on the surface. Get real, freedom doesn't mean you can do whatever you want whenever you want. It means you can try.
People don't get mugged for phones much out here in Australia, all you have to do is report the phone stolen and its blacklisted.
What's to stop somebody from reporting *YOUR* phone as stolen to inconvenience you?
Yes, there are people in the world that are demented enough that doing something like that would be enjoyable.... all they'd need to know is your phone number.
They'd need your IMIE number and to convince the network they're you. You could get it reactivated by contacting your network to find out why you can't make calls, be told it's blacklisted, prove yourself as the owner, probably by your receipt or further account details. It can be undone. Only your home network can do it but it's across all networks.
It is trivial to swap out the IMEI and unblacklist any phone. I guess you Aussies are just too fucking stupid to figure that out.
It might be trivial if your have the knowledge and equipment to do so, which most people don't. And as it's an illegal practice here in UK (and in Oz by the sounds of it) no legit phone shop would do it for you so you'd have to find some guy to do it or learn it from google. Sure you could get it done but I wouldn't say it was trivial.
I bought an iphone 3g or whatever of some guy a few years back for twenty quid. Knew it had been blocked on the network but I only wanted it for a cheap mp3 player. Left one of my phones in a taxi some opportunist had away. First thing I did was call the network to have it blocked. The system works (kinda), it is annoying to lose phones in whatever circumstance but it does make you feel a bit better no one else can use, well to make calls anyway.
Mine's on my wrist, and on the wall, and in my pocket, and on the wall in the next room, and in the bottom right...and they all say something different.
thus it is impossible to believe that the success is down to anything other than marketing to braindead consumers.
That's exactly what it is. They didn't even try to convince people it was the best. It somehow became a style thing. There were plenty of better and cheaper mp3 players on the market. Still are. Sure ipods now are a lot better than they were back then but they're still no better than the competition and more expensive. Loads of people buy apple because of the badge and say oh macs are better for this or that but they can't give a single tangible reason why. Personally, if someone wants to get a mac for either the fact it's 'cooler' or they have a reasoned preference for that machine, that's their issue but don't get all defensive because someone else doesn't like it or want it.
Apple's patents are on design, silly things like rounded corners and page bounce. They are easy to work around.
Of course they are easy to work around. The problem is Samsung didn't want to work around them, they wanted their products to look like iPhones and iPads. And look what happened: All those companies that didn't sell iPhone and iPad lookalikes are not selling. The one company that copied Apple's designs became the most successful.
I never got this. Samsungs look no more familiar to iphones than other smart phones. A rectangle with rounder corners. Ive recently upgraded to a sony xperia z and thats the most different looking to an iphone I've had but only because it doesnt have a physical button at the bottom middle. Before this I had a nokia e7 which had most of the physical features and an iphone. Take any of the flagship models really, describe them to a blind person and they'll probably think they all look the same.
...that a US company can't sell their product in the US because of an import ban on that product?
Yep. I wonder if they would have the issue if they made the phones in america. They seem pretty proud that the stuff was designed there, but are happy to farm of production to the cheapest option and avoid tax at every term. Anyway I'm convinced steve jobs sold his soul for the massive boom in popularity from the ipod days (even though they were shit), actually, he probably sold the souls of the marketing dept and everyone who clicks I agree. Bollocks to them.
I dunno how much an iphone goes for nowadays but wouldn't it be much better to just give them all a 650d or equivalent, a quick course on actual photography and then send them loose. Green square by default. It's much quicker and more professional looking to lift a proper looking camera and snap something than to mess around unlocking the iscreen, pressing the iicon for the icamera then taking your iphoto which will probably end up looking like complete arse unless it's a close up on something, a portrait of a willing subject or scenery shot.
Second assumption: Your unwanted 'adverts' won't threaten your life for being pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, anti-republican, anti-military occupation.
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Yeah well if a sysadmin tells me not to make police officers hate me, I'll take the advice.
If a sysadmin tells me not to make sysadmins hate me, I'll take it as self-serving BS if it's not an overt threat.
So what if a police officer tells you not to make police officers hate you? Same self serving BS? Don't make anyone hate you seems to be a good idea to me.
and you can do Xbox 360 level graphics on a $300 android. Apple could easily subsidize that and get the cost down to $150. They probably wouldn't even lose that much money if they bought in quantity. The Shield's a niche item, I bet nVidia's not making that many of 'em.
Wait, so for $300 you can get something akin to a 7 year old device that cost $280! Sign me up. And why would Apple make an android device?
I get similar problems. I'm a media tech at a school and we have a managed IT provider (northgate). Staff are provided with a decentish win7 laptop and ALL desktops run citrix to give an identical VM to every user. That's all well and good for office and other general software most departments use but as I do most of the media stuff I need different equipment for very real reasons the main one being that since adobe CS4 the video packages are 64 bit only. Win7 laptops are 32bit and it doesn't matter what the desktop is because of citrix, I can alt-F4 out of that but then it counts as legacy equipment and IT won't touch it so the machine is blank as the discs aren't even held on site. Now normally you can get around that as adobe will give you a cs4 downgrade key for the video suite except the key is held by god knows who at northgate, but even if they did get the cs4 key they would charge the school to prepare another image with that on it, which the school won't pay for just for one user and I highly doubt it will get sorted in next years image.
I do have a mac that's decent and 64bit...but it's broken and has been away for repair twice. Which the school is paying for as it's also legacy and northgate won't touch it. So I have to steal a student mac to be able to video or audio edit which has only one spare USB slot, no SD slot and can only access half the network. I can photoshop on the laptop but because of the way this network runs (god knows how) I get 100-150 hard faults a second and it runs like ass, but I can't have it installed anywhere that it doesn't apart from the dead or borrowed mac.
It's not like I can't do my job but they do make it a lot more difficult than it needs to be.
It's a shame as well because the IT guys are good people and want to be able to help but can't because their hands are tied by northgate.
In Communist Ammerica the Chinese own you!
FTFY
...isn't that being given access?
Let's pretend I host a website that allows you to download hundreds of novels and other works. These are all still under copyright in the USA. But I, and my website, are located in a place where all these works are in the public domain (e.g. Australia, and Russia). If I then (perhaps I'm a masochist) visit the USA, can I be arrested and charged? Probably not actually.
I would say yeah. They've shown all you have to do to be arrested on entry to America is post a few ill thought tweets.
Without googleing who the fuck are Agilent Technologies Inc.
Well, actually, a shotgun at that distance is more to scare off vegetable-stealing hobbits. It's not likely to hurt you badly.
He needs to start getting some kills so he can upgrade that shit!
It's fine right? God please let the tea be okay.
They should make it so the first post cannot be anonymous.
It should come with a first post pre attached.
Freedom is only one way of achieving results, of which there are many ways.
If my goals can be achieved without "freedom", that's just fine.
Without this useless freedom your 'goal' is to mine 20 hours a day 200ft underground to provide power for the elite few living the good life on the surface. Get real, freedom doesn't mean you can do whatever you want whenever you want. It means you can try.
What's to stop somebody from reporting *YOUR* phone as stolen to inconvenience you?
Yes, there are people in the world that are demented enough that doing something like that would be enjoyable.... all they'd need to know is your phone number.
They'd need your IMIE number and to convince the network they're you. You could get it reactivated by contacting your network to find out why you can't make calls, be told it's blacklisted, prove yourself as the owner, probably by your receipt or further account details. It can be undone. Only your home network can do it but it's across all networks.
It is trivial to swap out the IMEI and unblacklist any phone. I guess you Aussies are just too fucking stupid to figure that out.
It might be trivial if your have the knowledge and equipment to do so, which most people don't. And as it's an illegal practice here in UK (and in Oz by the sounds of it) no legit phone shop would do it for you so you'd have to find some guy to do it or learn it from google. Sure you could get it done but I wouldn't say it was trivial.
I bought an iphone 3g or whatever of some guy a few years back for twenty quid. Knew it had been blocked on the network but I only wanted it for a cheap mp3 player. Left one of my phones in a taxi some opportunist had away. First thing I did was call the network to have it blocked. The system works (kinda), it is annoying to lose phones in whatever circumstance but it does make you feel a bit better no one else can use, well to make calls anyway.
Mine's on my wrist, and on the wall, and in my pocket, and on the wall in the next room, and in the bottom right...and they all say something different.
so to get all those BBC4 documentaries I like so much, I scour iPlayer to watch them after they've been broadcast
Technically you should still have a license for that.
On all households? Bollocks. You can choose not to own a tv. Many do.
That's not enough you have to own nothing capable of receiving tv signal and thanks to tv channel repeater sites that includes a computer.
thus it is impossible to believe that the success is down to anything other than marketing to braindead consumers.
That's exactly what it is. They didn't even try to convince people it was the best. It somehow became a style thing. There were plenty of better and cheaper mp3 players on the market. Still are. Sure ipods now are a lot better than they were back then but they're still no better than the competition and more expensive. Loads of people buy apple because of the badge and say oh macs are better for this or that but they can't give a single tangible reason why. Personally, if someone wants to get a mac for either the fact it's 'cooler' or they have a reasoned preference for that machine, that's their issue but don't get all defensive because someone else doesn't like it or want it.
Apple's patents are on design, silly things like rounded corners and page bounce. They are easy to work around.
Of course they are easy to work around. The problem is Samsung didn't want to work around them, they wanted their products to look like iPhones and iPads. And look what happened: All those companies that didn't sell iPhone and iPad lookalikes are not selling. The one company that copied Apple's designs became the most successful.
I never got this. Samsungs look no more familiar to iphones than other smart phones. A rectangle with rounder corners. Ive recently upgraded to a sony xperia z and thats the most different looking to an iphone I've had but only because it doesnt have a physical button at the bottom middle. Before this I had a nokia e7 which had most of the physical features and an iphone. Take any of the flagship models really, describe them to a blind person and they'll probably think they all look the same.
...that a US company can't sell their product in the US because of an import ban on that product?
Yep. I wonder if they would have the issue if they made the phones in america. They seem pretty proud that the stuff was designed there, but are happy to farm of production to the cheapest option and avoid tax at every term. Anyway I'm convinced steve jobs sold his soul for the massive boom in popularity from the ipod days (even though they were shit), actually, he probably sold the souls of the marketing dept and everyone who clicks I agree. Bollocks to them.
I dunno how much an iphone goes for nowadays but wouldn't it be much better to just give them all a 650d or equivalent, a quick course on actual photography and then send them loose. Green square by default. It's much quicker and more professional looking to lift a proper looking camera and snap something than to mess around unlocking the iscreen, pressing the iicon for the icamera then taking your iphoto which will probably end up looking like complete arse unless it's a close up on something, a portrait of a willing subject or scenery shot.
Never put anything online you wouldn't want you mum to. Goes doubly so for social networks.
...mum to see.
Second assumption: Your unwanted 'adverts' won't threaten your life for being pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, anti-republican, anti-military occupation.
Well, that escalated quickly.
Never put anything online you wouldn't want you mum to. Goes doubly so for social networks.
I live in the UK and I have Virgin, and I can and do access and use the pirate bay, not to mention demonoid and all the others which aren't blocked.