Well, keep in mind that people are too #@$% lazy to go and vote. It costs time and gas money, and in some cases people legitimately have no time or means to go either.
So the "problem" that an electronic voting system could potentially solve is giving people the ability to vote from anywhere by making use of teh internets. But that is not something that any e-voting system has actually managed to solve yet.
Exactly. The past 5 or so phones I've had were plagued by bugs (not kernel security issues, but significant UI flaws, etc.) that were sometimes acknowledged and fixed by the manufacturer. But the only way to get that newer firmware was to buy a new phone that came from the factory with it, all because the carrier refused to provide an update mechanism.
Like you said, this is one thing Apple did totally right.
Also, what about those devices that the manufacturer refuses to put updated OS's out there for the users. I know of a few this year that are stuck on 1.5 and 1.6 that the provider refuses to update.
Well the good news is that this "serious security bug" is in 2.2 which means those users aren't affected (not that 1.5 & 1.6 are bug free).
The other saving grace for them is that most carriers are offering "free" upgrades every 15-24 months, so if you have a device that is only 1.x compatible/supported, chances are it's close to EOL & replacement anyway.
Well, sort of. Even if they get fixed quickly by developers, the time it takes them to actually get fixes to consumer devices is huge. That deployment process relies on device manufacturers who often customize the OS a bit per-device and cell carriers who have to push out the updates. For them it's just an expense/loss of resources, so unless it's something really serious they don't even seem to put much effort into it.
Exactly. Want to guess what percentage my internal bug tracking submissions at work that come in are initially tagged as "critical" before they are even confirmed?
Hint: It's pretty close to the # that are marked "very low" after initial review:)
If it makes you feel any better IE 9 is 100% Microsoft compatible... the most Microsoft compatible browser under development.
Sure it is, but try explaining that to your next door neighbor's grandmother who can't install it even though she "runs Microsoft on her hard drive" when referring to her PC with Windows XP.
Perhaps my understanding of "standard" is a bit skewed, but isn't there something wrong when the best that a browser in its 9th version backed by the most powerful software company in the world can do is just be the "most compatible" one out there?
All FTP clients I use are 100% compatible with the FTP standard. I believe Adobe Flash player is 100% compatible with Flash. I think most mail clients are 100% IMAP and POP3 compatible.
Shouldn't standards be straightforward enough so that all parties wishing to comply to them simply can? Shouldn't compatibility with a standard be a floor instead of a ceiling to asymptotically crept towards?
I'm sure I'm missing something here -- what is it?
Well they are all HTTP compatible at least, and have been for quite a while in fact. But that's protocols, which deal with the transmission of content (data). It's a relatively simplistic grammer to follow, and hardly ever changes (I believe the current standard is over 10 years old). That's where FTP, IMAP, POP3, etc. are as well.
HTML has to do with the content itself, and interpreting that is a whole different game. This, of course, is mainly due to the extreme complexity that has been crammed into it. I mean really, eventhandlers, storage, video, DOMs, MathML, SVG, canvaseseses, progress meters....that stuff adds so much complexity that it's destined to fail (and by fail I mean not be adhered to as a standard).
Back in 1993 HTML (the first version, which had no version #, it was just a defined MIME type) was already way more complex than most basic protocols like HTTP, FTP, etc. Trying to compare those to HTML5 is like comparing apples to space shuttles.
Lack of landlines means ~4 points for democrats, and robopollers means ~4 points towards republican. So they "cancel each other out" in effect? This article (or the summary at least) has effectively destroyed itself. There is no news here. Move along.
The words "Apple," "iPhone," and "iPod" do not appear in the summary or summary's title. Is Apple and the iPhone getting so dominant that we can just assume that "The App Store" is alway's Apple's?
Yes because it is called App Store, not Market, or Marketplace, or App World, or whatever else there is out there on other platforms.
most of what we know about brain comes from accidents
Tons of scientific "breakthroughs" and other 8th-wonder-of-the-world type inventions were accidents.
The moral of this story? Scientists need to stop being so damn careful trying to delicately slice a brain into 2400 pieces and instead bust out a SlapChop!
The user is not engaging in any commercial exploitation of the firmware, at least not when the jailbreaking is done for the user’s own private use of the device
The fact that Crippen is making money from breaking the law, and in likelyhood abetting a little casual piracy, suggests he's going to get made an example of.
And that's just it. They don't care (or at least not enough to litigate) if you do it for private use, it's when you start making money that it becomes a problem.
Unlike the intangible claims from the BSA about the "costs" of piracy, this is the case where there actually are people willing to pay (well, maybe not MSRP, but more than $0 at least) for some software. That's when BigGameCorp starts to lose (read: not receive) revenue.
It's the new math, previously put forth by Sun when they started calling Java 1.2 "Java 2".
I can't wait to see what happens when they get past 1.9 (aka Java 9?)
Will it be 2.0? Can't call it Java 2.
Maybe it will be 1.10? Isn't 1.10 == 1.1? Taken.
They'll probably just start jumping on the meaningless-pair-of-letters bandwagon that everyone else has been getting on and off of over the years...MX, CS, XP, ME, CE, NT, FX, DX, MP, XL,...
"Just released, the latest and greatest, J2EE JDK DD!" (DD, for double-digit, lol)
just like a vat full of zombie parts can't be put together into an undead army by a chainsaw running in reverse.
That's odd, my chainsaw has a lever with a iconic depiction of zombie parts fusing together on one side. I wanted to know how it worked, seems there is a sliding gear on the other end, and that apparently makes the blade go the other way.
The sales guy said it could could have dangerous consequences, and that I should never use it. Now you've got me tempted to try it to see if it really works. All I need is a pile of zombie parts, anyone care to donate a few?
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Well there are, but they aren't free.
In fact I imagine, given NASA's way of paying for stuff, a single meal on the shuttle is probably on the order of $1000.
P.S. Do you still call it lunch if you are in orbit? I mean the concept of day/night and breakfast/lunch/dinner don't really work the same up there.
Well, keep in mind that people are too #@$% lazy to go and vote. It costs time and gas money, and in some cases people legitimately have no time or means to go either.
So the "problem" that an electronic voting system could potentially solve is giving people the ability to vote from anywhere by making use of teh internets. But that is not something that any e-voting system has actually managed to solve yet.
Exactly. The past 5 or so phones I've had were plagued by bugs (not kernel security issues, but significant UI flaws, etc.) that were sometimes acknowledged and fixed by the manufacturer. But the only way to get that newer firmware was to buy a new phone that came from the factory with it, all because the carrier refused to provide an update mechanism.
Like you said, this is one thing Apple did totally right.
Also, what about those devices that the manufacturer refuses to put updated OS's out there for the users. I know of a few this year that are stuck on 1.5 and 1.6 that the provider refuses to update.
Well the good news is that this "serious security bug" is in 2.2 which means those users aren't affected (not that 1.5 & 1.6 are bug free).
The other saving grace for them is that most carriers are offering "free" upgrades every 15-24 months, so if you have a device that is only 1.x compatible/supported, chances are it's close to EOL & replacement anyway.
They are outed, and so get fixed even faster.
Well, sort of. Even if they get fixed quickly by developers, the time it takes them to actually get fixes to consumer devices is huge. That deployment process relies on device manufacturers who often customize the OS a bit per-device and cell carriers who have to push out the updates. For them it's just an expense/loss of resources, so unless it's something really serious they don't even seem to put much effort into it.
Exactly. Want to guess what percentage my internal bug tracking submissions at work that come in are initially tagged as "critical" before they are even confirmed?
Hint: It's pretty close to the # that are marked "very low" after initial review :)
Congratulations, you just showed your age with that song reference. ...crap, and so did I by replying.
If it makes you feel any better IE 9 is 100% Microsoft compatible ... the most Microsoft compatible browser under development.
Sure it is, but try explaining that to your next door neighbor's grandmother who can't install it even though she "runs Microsoft on her hard drive" when referring to her PC with Windows XP.
Because it's in the hands of committees, consortiums, working groups, and other slow-moving bureaucratic-minded non-agreeing aggregations of people.
Perhaps my understanding of "standard" is a bit skewed, but isn't there something wrong when the best that a browser in its 9th version backed by the most powerful software company in the world can do is just be the "most compatible" one out there?
All FTP clients I use are 100% compatible with the FTP standard. I believe Adobe Flash player is 100% compatible with Flash. I think most mail clients are 100% IMAP and POP3 compatible.
Shouldn't standards be straightforward enough so that all parties wishing to comply to them simply can? Shouldn't compatibility with a standard be a floor instead of a ceiling to asymptotically crept towards?
I'm sure I'm missing something here -- what is it?
Well they are all HTTP compatible at least, and have been for quite a while in fact. But that's protocols, which deal with the transmission of content (data). It's a relatively simplistic grammer to follow, and hardly ever changes (I believe the current standard is over 10 years old). That's where FTP, IMAP, POP3, etc. are as well.
HTML has to do with the content itself, and interpreting that is a whole different game. This, of course, is mainly due to the extreme complexity that has been crammed into it. I mean really, eventhandlers, storage, video, DOMs, MathML, SVG, canvaseseses, progress meters....that stuff adds so much complexity that it's destined to fail (and by fail I mean not be adhered to as a standard).
Back in 1993 HTML (the first version, which had no version #, it was just a defined MIME type) was already way more complex than most basic protocols like HTTP, FTP, etc. Trying to compare those to HTML5 is like comparing apples to space shuttles.
He was referring to the fact that it takes a 50% performance hit (read: fuel economy reduction) going from highway to city.
Whereas a typical modern internal combustion family sedan might see 30mpg on the highway, and drop to 23mpg in the city...only a ~23% reduction.
I see you've spent a few hours working the Anti-Mass Spectrometer.
Lack of landlines means ~4 points for democrats, and robopollers means ~4 points towards republican. So they "cancel each other out" in effect? This article (or the summary at least) has effectively destroyed itself. There is no news here. Move along.
Profit. It always leads there, even underpants gnomes know that!
The words "Apple," "iPhone," and "iPod" do not appear in the summary or summary's title. Is Apple and the iPhone getting so dominant that we can just assume that "The App Store" is alway's Apple's?
Yes because it is called App Store , not Market, or Marketplace, or App World, or whatever else there is out there on other platforms.
point less story. we all know to get are emus like dosbox nes snes etc we go to cydia. who doesn't have a jailbroken i device these days.
Steve Jobs
And maybe your Aunt Myrtle, but that's only because she can't figure out how to get past the Slide to Unlock thing.
Are there any console emulators for the iPhone?
Yes, quite a few. My personal favorite is the NES emulator which lets me use a WiiMote as the controller via bluetooth.
Of course, this is all in the jailbroken realm, which is exactly where I suspect to this "removed" app will appear appear next.
>eagerly awaits to fire up QBasic for some sweet bananna-over-building-tossing action<
most of what we know about brain comes from accidents
Tons of scientific "breakthroughs" and other 8th-wonder-of-the-world type inventions were accidents.
The moral of this story?
Scientists need to stop being so damn careful trying to delicately slice a brain into 2400 pieces and instead bust out a SlapChop!
...I always knew saccharin had a weird after-taste.
That's because you were doing it wrong...you are supposed to put it in your iced tea, not snort it through the straw.
The user is not engaging in any commercial exploitation of the firmware, at least not when the jailbreaking is done for the user’s own private use of the device
The fact that Crippen is making money from breaking the law, and in likelyhood abetting a little casual piracy, suggests he's going to get made an example of.
And that's just it. They don't care (or at least not enough to litigate) if you do it for private use, it's when you start making money that it becomes a problem.
Unlike the intangible claims from the BSA about the "costs" of piracy, this is the case where there actually are people willing to pay (well, maybe not MSRP, but more than $0 at least) for some software. That's when BigGameCorp starts to lose (read: not receive) revenue.
Feel free to run Halo on your phone.
Halo on the iPhone...yeah, why not?
Welcome to 2008 (I think that is when it was done).
Perhaps a better question is, what can you do with many small unrelated botnets that you can't do with a large botnet?
A botnet of botnets if you will?
But you'll need a network of networks for them to run on. Good luck finding that! /lamejoke
It's the new math, previously put forth by Sun when they started calling Java 1.2 "Java 2".
I can't wait to see what happens when they get past 1.9 (aka Java 9?)
Will it be 2.0? Can't call it Java 2.
Maybe it will be 1.10? Isn't 1.10 == 1.1? Taken.
They'll probably just start jumping on the meaningless-pair-of-letters bandwagon that everyone else has been getting on and off of over the years...MX, CS, XP, ME, CE, NT, FX, DX, MP, XL, ...
"Just released, the latest and greatest, J2EE JDK DD!"
(DD, for double-digit, lol)
Okay smartypants, what's after that?
just like a vat full of zombie parts can't be put together into an undead army by a chainsaw running in reverse.
That's odd, my chainsaw has a lever with a iconic depiction of zombie parts fusing together on one side. I wanted to know how it worked, seems there is a sliding gear on the other end, and that apparently makes the blade go the other way.
The sales guy said it could could have dangerous consequences, and that I should never use it. Now you've got me tempted to try it to see if it really works. All I need is a pile of zombie parts, anyone care to donate a few?