I agree, but Apple decided to partner with TOM TOM of all companies....Apple should have just bought Garmin instead
Garmin do not own any maps. The only realistic alternative to Google and Tom Tom is Nokia, but they're competition too, so its easy to see why Apple went with Tom Tom.
As a counterpoint, the iPad was introduced in May of 2010 (less than two and a half years ago), was still the latest model up until 18 months ago, and does not get iOS6. So I don't think Apple has a very good history of supporting devices for an extended time, on the contrary, they stop supporting them on the next major version after they are no longer on sale.
I think the criteria is that the device is powerful enough and has the features required for the OS update. I think they got it wrong once... allowing iPhone 3G users to update to iOS 4, when it didn't have the horsepower required.
How does this explain the iPhone 3GS getting iOS6 when the iPad doesn't?
If you buy an iPhone every two years, you're basically guaranteed to always have the latest OS
The iPhone 3GS was still being manufactured until just over a week ago, so there should still be some in stores. If you buy one now, what do you think the chances are of seeing another update again ever?
aside from stuff like Siri, which I do think counts, but that is the exception
I don't think its the exception, but the new business model for Apple. Look at all the "new" maps features in iOS6 which are exclusive to the latest, or one generation earlier iDevices.
It's not the Flash chip itself, but a problem in the kernels for some official Samsung builds of 4.0.4. Flashing via the officially sanctioned Samsung methods works, but as soon as you try using custom ROMs with their own flashing methods, there is a high likelyhood of triggering the bug and ending up with a brick that requires a reflashing of the bootloader via JTAG to recover.
While all iOS devices are Apple phones/tablets/media players and the iOS 6 update is available for all of them made within the past couple of years.
The original iPad was still being made within the last couple of years, and does not get iOS6. The criteria actually seems to be devices that are still in production at the time of the announcement. iPhone 3GS was discontinued on Sept 12, a few days before the iPhone 5 launched, and gets iOS6 despite being an older device with lower spec hardware.
It was originally started by two Apple employees. Microsoft bought it after it was already well established (Yahoo had already bought rocketmail, which was the main competitor for free web based email in the mid 1990s).
Well if you wanted to go to a new system that is limited to 16 char.
The question is why would you do that. Microsoft are a big enough customer to force the supplier to change their backward ways. Another more likely scenario is that they are moving from an old system that silently discarded everything above 16 characters to an unlimited system, but since old passwords only used 16 characters, they need users to only type the first 16 characters to be able to still log in.
As fun as it is to bash Microsoft, they're not the only ones who do this. Presumably there is some technical reason why this is done
Probably something like the password is stored in a CHAR(16) column in their database. If they were to accept longer passwords, they'd have to do something radical like hash them before storing in their database.
Personally, if I had a hotmail account, I'd be closing it and changing any shared password elsewhere - not because they're limiting the password length, but because they are technically able to log you in with only a part of your password, which proves they have been storing it without hashing all along.
Rubbish, the low-end on a vinyl record is far superior,
CDs have a flat frequency response from DC to around 20kHz. They have a dynamic range of over 150dB. The "problems" you describe with combining two large waveforms of different frequencies apply equally to record pressing as well as CD mastering, except the dynamic range you've got to play with is much less, and there is significant rolloff at low frequencies.
So, with a 45kHz carrrier, vinyl is theoretically limited to 22.5kHz; anything more, and you get aliasing between the 45kHz signal and the baseband.
Aliasing applies to digital sampling and conversion back to analog, not to analog recording and reproduction. Vinyl with a 45kHz carrier can reproduce up to the point when the carried signal starts to overlap, which will depend on the modulation and characteristics of the carried signal. Steep high cut filters, as used on early CD players before oversampling was introduced to allow simpler filters to be used, can leave you with much of the signal up to 20kHz intact.
There were a lot of factors, not just the players but the fact that the industry took time to learn new recording and mastering techniques suitable for digital audio. Early CDs were produced from the vinyl master, with the same boost to high frequencies that vinyl needed, making the CDs sound overly bright in comparison. There was also quantisation noise in low volume music (this affects classical more than anything), which although well outside the dynamic range that is reproducible on vinyl, was quite noticeable on CD due to the fact that silence really is silent. Addition of a bit of low volume white noise fixes that.
some use 'odd' samplerates like 176.4 and 88.2 in addition to the more standard 96. I have files from 'high res' music sellers in pretty much all those formats. its a PITA for DAC and spdif chip guys, let me tell you...
DACs are externally clocked. SP/DIF is a self clocking signal. So no PITA unless you are making overpriced audiophile DACs that reclock the signal to compensate for the varying speed of light in your overpriced audiophile grade fibre optic cable.
Before any of the phone patent wars began, Nokia sued Apple and tried to get the ITC to ban the original iPhone. Apple counter-sued because Nokia was demanding substantially more then they were charging anyone else to use their FAND covered patent technologies. As soon as Nokia offered a deal with reasonable, but still higher prices, they settled.
So Apple thought they could launch a complex electronic device into the market without paying to license anyone's patents? And then they act all offended because when they're caught out, they don't get offered the same price as everyone else who paid up front? How many times have they been through this same pattern now?
Where do you think "religion of peace" came from? It came from ordinary muslims around the world standing up after 9/11 and saying "that's not my religion". And now it seems to get thrown back in their face every time a tiny minority does something like this, so I don't imagine they're all that keen on going through that again.
Defending the video on the pretense of "free speech" is also granting power to extremist groups. There are many reasons this video needs to be taken down. From the exploition of the cast, to the attempt to incite violence against Jews and Israel by falsely claiming it was made by a Jewish Israeli director, when in fact it was made by a motley bunch of right-wing neo-nazi and Egyption Christian nutjobs.
Not conservative. A conservative would want things to stay the same,
In this case, "things staying the same" is dependant on the public not changing their oil purchasing habits due to the findings of climate scientists. So yes, conservative is the correct label.
Harrassment and murder of abortion clinic staff and patients is probably more unambiguously a terror act of Christian fanatics than an invasion of another country on false pretenses by a national army.
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Garmin do not own any maps. The only realistic alternative to Google and Tom Tom is Nokia, but they're competition too, so its easy to see why Apple went with Tom Tom.
Because those "new" features do not require recent hardware in other apps like Google Earth, and Garmin Navigon.
As a counterpoint, the iPad was introduced in May of 2010 (less than two and a half years ago), was still the latest model up until 18 months ago, and does not get iOS6. So I don't think Apple has a very good history of supporting devices for an extended time, on the contrary, they stop supporting them on the next major version after they are no longer on sale.
How does this explain the iPhone 3GS getting iOS6 when the iPad doesn't?
Who, Tomtom/TeleAtlas? They've been in the business a lot longer than Google has.
About as many as 2.5 year old iPads. Your point was....?
The iPhone 3GS was still being manufactured until just over a week ago, so there should still be some in stores. If you buy one now, what do you think the chances are of seeing another update again ever?
I don't think its the exception, but the new business model for Apple. Look at all the "new" maps features in iOS6 which are exclusive to the latest, or one generation earlier iDevices.
iOS6 only wipes your Google applications, and your iTunes account details. Everything else seems to be intact.
It's not the Flash chip itself, but a problem in the kernels for some official Samsung builds of 4.0.4. Flashing via the officially sanctioned Samsung methods works, but as soon as you try using custom ROMs with their own flashing methods, there is a high likelyhood of triggering the bug and ending up with a brick that requires a reflashing of the bootloader via JTAG to recover.
The original iPad was still being made within the last couple of years, and does not get iOS6. The criteria actually seems to be devices that are still in production at the time of the announcement. iPhone 3GS was discontinued on Sept 12, a few days before the iPhone 5 launched, and gets iOS6 despite being an older device with lower spec hardware.
It was originally started by two Apple employees. Microsoft bought it after it was already well established (Yahoo had already bought rocketmail, which was the main competitor for free web based email in the mid 1990s).
The question is why would you do that. Microsoft are a big enough customer to force the supplier to change their backward ways. Another more likely scenario is that they are moving from an old system that silently discarded everything above 16 characters to an unlimited system, but since old passwords only used 16 characters, they need users to only type the first 16 characters to be able to still log in.
Hmmm, I wonder what other opportunities for SQL injection there are that they don't have covered.
Probably something like the password is stored in a CHAR(16) column in their database. If they were to accept longer passwords, they'd have to do something radical like hash them before storing in their database.
Personally, if I had a hotmail account, I'd be closing it and changing any shared password elsewhere - not because they're limiting the password length, but because they are technically able to log you in with only a part of your password, which proves they have been storing it without hashing all along.
CDs have a flat frequency response from DC to around 20kHz. They have a dynamic range of over 150dB. The "problems" you describe with combining two large waveforms of different frequencies apply equally to record pressing as well as CD mastering, except the dynamic range you've got to play with is much less, and there is significant rolloff at low frequencies.
Aliasing applies to digital sampling and conversion back to analog, not to analog recording and reproduction. Vinyl with a 45kHz carrier can reproduce up to the point when the carried signal starts to overlap, which will depend on the modulation and characteristics of the carried signal. Steep high cut filters, as used on early CD players before oversampling was introduced to allow simpler filters to be used, can leave you with much of the signal up to 20kHz intact.
There were a lot of factors, not just the players but the fact that the industry took time to learn new recording and mastering techniques suitable for digital audio. Early CDs were produced from the vinyl master, with the same boost to high frequencies that vinyl needed, making the CDs sound overly bright in comparison. There was also quantisation noise in low volume music (this affects classical more than anything), which although well outside the dynamic range that is reproducible on vinyl, was quite noticeable on CD due to the fact that silence really is silent. Addition of a bit of low volume white noise fixes that.
DACs are externally clocked. SP/DIF is a self clocking signal. So no PITA unless you are making overpriced audiophile DACs that reclock the signal to compensate for the varying speed of light in your overpriced audiophile grade fibre optic cable.
I think this proves your fears of being watched by the French government correct.
So Apple thought they could launch a complex electronic device into the market without paying to license anyone's patents? And then they act all offended because when they're caught out, they don't get offered the same price as everyone else who paid up front? How many times have they been through this same pattern now?
The difference between consumer and business is Vista. Businesses never went near it, and consumers can't wait to get rid of it.
Where do you think "religion of peace" came from? It came from ordinary muslims around the world standing up after 9/11 and saying "that's not my religion". And now it seems to get thrown back in their face every time a tiny minority does something like this, so I don't imagine they're all that keen on going through that again.
Defending the video on the pretense of "free speech" is also granting power to extremist groups. There are many reasons this video needs to be taken down. From the exploition of the cast, to the attempt to incite violence against Jews and Israel by falsely claiming it was made by a Jewish Israeli director, when in fact it was made by a motley bunch of right-wing neo-nazi and Egyption Christian nutjobs.
In this case, "things staying the same" is dependant on the public not changing their oil purchasing habits due to the findings of climate scientists. So yes, conservative is the correct label.
Harrassment and murder of abortion clinic staff and patients is probably more unambiguously a terror act of Christian fanatics than an invasion of another country on false pretenses by a national army.