I think the statement reads oddly out of context because the case is about an iOS7 phone, where it's not 'impossible' (only burdensome) yet warning them that it will be impossible in the future. They're afraid that un-encrypting it now, just because it's not 'impossible' will mean that in the future they might be forced (by law) to make it possible, so they're arguing that they shouldn't have to do it, even now that it's only 'burdensome'.
Just providing my own anecdote to the conversation. Seems like the entire* country of Dominican Republic is using WhatsApp. From what I recall, BlackBerry Messenger had become the IM app of choice. People saw it as "free SMS". Everyone wanted a BlackBerry, just for the messenger app. Long after RIM had lost most of it's marketshare here in the US, it was still going strong there. Eventually though, they couldn't ignore the iPhone anymore, and WhatsApp was one of the few IM apps that worked across the phones. Now, black berry is dead, and iPhones have iMessage, but WhatApp has momentum, and much better group messaging features.
I personally don't know of anyone in the US that uses WhatsApp without there having been a need to communicate which someone internationally that has it.
Stop looking for users in the US. That's not where the WhatApps users are.
Hardly. I just just checked prices (because I'm out of contract with AT&T and thinking of upgrading to a smart phone), and AT&T will charge me $130/mo for two iPhones while Sprint will charge me $128/mo for two Droid phones - and that's without the 4G tariff.
I don't see how you can price a comparable plan on AT&T for $130. I have 4 phones on my family plan and everyone in my family would sure like an iPhone, but the value is just not there when you compare AT&T prices to Sprint. You would have to find an AT&T plan that charges $40 for 2 lines since you need to add at least $90 in add-ons ($60 (2x$30) for iPhone data plan + $30 for family messaging) to match the Sprint plan. The "Sprint Everything Data Family - with Any Mobile, AnytimeSM" get you, for $129/month:
1500 anytime minutes
free nights and weekends (7PM-7AM)
'unlimited' pda internet
Free anytime Mobile to ANY Mobile (this is huge!) The closest similar AT&T plan would be the "Nation 1400 FamilyTalk w/Rollover® Minutes" plan, for a total $179/month and:
nights and weekends are 9PM to 6AM
free mobile to mobile only to other AT&T phones "from within your calling area".
Yes, but how much does cell phone service cost outside of the US? It's not a rhetorical question, I want to know. I've hosted a number of foreign exchange sudents from latin america and europe and they always seemed amazed at how much you can talk on the phone, even though the reciever pays. Between free in-network calls, free nights and weekends and the hundreds of minutes included in the monthly charge, they all felt that you get alot more for your money in the US. It's annoying for them to call back home many times because even though long distance rates are pretty cheap now, calling a foreign cell phone can cost up to 5x as much (due to taxes and/or caller pays?). SMS on the other hand is used more often outside of the US, due to the high price here (usually 10 cents a message!) and the cheap voice calls. Of course, if you are using a "pre-paid" phone in the US, it's a different story.
If you can get your hands on a Windows OEM install disc, it will accept the OEM key on your computer's label. Then just call Microsoft to activate.
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Yes, you have to get your content into iTunes. That doesn't mean you have to buy any content from the iTunes store. I'm thinking of getting an AppleTV and an EyeTV product (in my case a EyeTV Hybrid) instead of spending $800 on an HD TiVo. The EyeTV will act as a DVR (except for the "live tv" features), saving my recordings into iTunes for viewing on the AppleTV. Also, I hear that you can rip DVDs and add them to iTunes also (just like any other video file).
The description of the terms given to the Korean developers sound like the terms that music artists have to put up with. First Sony and KIPA will front part of the development costs, then once published the "profit" (i.e. money in sales minus anything sony wants to charge them for)goes to pay back Sony's part of thier investment. Of course, if the accounting is anything like it is in the movie/music business, no game will make a profit, and then KIPA will claim the game quality was "low" and demand it's money back from the developer too.
... what's the point of having HD at all (except to watch DVDs)?
DVDs are the same resolution as an EDTV. Upon realizing this why not simply get an EDTV now, and wait until there is enough HD content to warrant an HDTV purchase.
There is no rocking action in this mouse! You click just as you do now in the regular single button mouse, only now, thanks to the touch sensitive areas, it knows if you clicked with a finger on the left or the right side of the mouse!
Has a "Scroll Ball", that seems to basically be a tiny trackball built into the mouse. The scroll ball is clickable.
The mouse has some touch sensitive areas where you traditionaly find left/right mouse buttons. You still click the entire body, but it knows wether your finger was on the left or right when you clicked.
Two side buttons
Optical
Currently wired only
It has a speaker inside! The speaker produces "sound effects"
Mac and Windows compatible (seems you need Tiger for fully functionality on Mac)
This project is implementing a Java Virtual Machine. How in the world does this fragment the Java Language any more than let's say Apple or IBM's many JVM implementations?
Now, if Harmony intends to "extend" the Java Language by lets say, adding new keywords, just as Microsoft did with J++ at one point, then you can start worrying about Java Language fragmentation (in which case Sun would not allow Harmony to call itself a Java(TM) Virtual Machine).
You're not getting the point of Spotlight. Look at the spotlight demo on Apple's site. Notice that the search is almost instantanous and that spotlight categorizes the search results! You don't need subfolders/symlinks etc to oranize because spotlight presents you the results in an organized fashion.
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You might be forced to pay the entire sales tax upon purchase.
I think the statement reads oddly out of context because the case is about an iOS7 phone, where it's not 'impossible' (only burdensome) yet warning them that it will be impossible in the future. They're afraid that un-encrypting it now, just because it's not 'impossible' will mean that in the future they might be forced (by law) to make it possible, so they're arguing that they shouldn't have to do it, even now that it's only 'burdensome'.
Just providing my own anecdote to the conversation. Seems like the entire* country of Dominican Republic is using WhatsApp. From what I recall, BlackBerry Messenger had become the IM app of choice. People saw it as "free SMS". Everyone wanted a BlackBerry, just for the messenger app. Long after RIM had lost most of it's marketshare here in the US, it was still going strong there. Eventually though, they couldn't ignore the iPhone anymore, and WhatsApp was one of the few IM apps that worked across the phones. Now, black berry is dead, and iPhones have iMessage, but WhatApp has momentum, and much better group messaging features. I personally don't know of anyone in the US that uses WhatsApp without there having been a need to communicate which someone internationally that has it. Stop looking for users in the US. That's not where the WhatApps users are.
You can stream from your computer.
Hardly. I just just checked prices (because I'm out of contract with AT&T and thinking of upgrading to a smart phone), and AT&T will charge me $130/mo for two iPhones while Sprint will charge me $128/mo for two Droid phones - and that's without the 4G tariff.
I don't see how you can price a comparable plan on AT&T for $130.
I have 4 phones on my family plan and everyone in my family would sure like an iPhone, but the value is just not there when you compare AT&T prices to Sprint.
You would have to find an AT&T plan that charges $40 for 2 lines since you need to add at least $90 in add-ons ($60 (2x$30) for iPhone data plan + $30 for family messaging) to match the Sprint plan.
The "Sprint Everything Data Family - with Any Mobile, AnytimeSM" get you, for $129/month:
1500 anytime minutes
free nights and weekends (7PM-7AM)
'unlimited' pda internet
Free anytime Mobile to ANY Mobile (this is huge!)
The closest similar AT&T plan would be the "Nation 1400 FamilyTalk w/Rollover® Minutes" plan, for a total $179/month and:
nights and weekends are 9PM to 6AM
free mobile to mobile only to other AT&T phones "from within your calling area".
Take a look at the Rich Ajax Platform Project.
Google Apps work without a broadband connection too.
CDs are ditigal.
Yes, but how much does cell phone service cost outside of the US? It's not a rhetorical question, I want to know. I've hosted a number of foreign exchange sudents from latin america and europe and they always seemed amazed at how much you can talk on the phone, even though the reciever pays. Between free in-network calls, free nights and weekends and the hundreds of minutes included in the monthly charge, they all felt that you get alot more for your money in the US. It's annoying for them to call back home many times because even though long distance rates are pretty cheap now, calling a foreign cell phone can cost up to 5x as much (due to taxes and/or caller pays?). SMS on the other hand is used more often outside of the US, due to the high price here (usually 10 cents a message!) and the cheap voice calls. Of course, if you are using a "pre-paid" phone in the US, it's a different story.
If you can get your hands on a Windows OEM install disc, it will accept the OEM key on your computer's label. Then just call Microsoft to activate.
Yes, you have to get your content into iTunes. That doesn't mean you have to buy any content from the iTunes store.
I'm thinking of getting an AppleTV and an EyeTV product (in my case a EyeTV Hybrid) instead of spending $800 on an HD TiVo. The EyeTV will act as a DVR (except for the "live tv" features), saving my recordings into iTunes for viewing on the AppleTV. Also, I hear that you can rip DVDs and add them to iTunes also (just like any other video file).
Are there any non-English spelling bees (other than for logographic systems)?
Whether you want to change English or not, we have to admit that English is HARD.
One of my favorite slashdot posts ever.
The description of the terms given to the Korean developers sound like the terms that music artists have to put up with. First Sony and KIPA will front part of the development costs, then once published the "profit" (i.e. money in sales minus anything sony wants to charge them for)goes to pay back Sony's part of thier investment. Of course, if the accounting is anything like it is in the movie/music business, no game will make a profit, and then KIPA will claim the game quality was "low" and demand it's money back from the developer too.
DB2 Express-C is free (as in beer).
DVDs are the same resolution as an EDTV. Upon realizing this why not simply get an EDTV now, and wait until there is enough HD content to warrant an HDTV purchase.
Java "failed" on the desktop. I didn't know PHP desktop apps were taking over.
If the station wanted to, they could setup a Video Podcast. I think some already have audio podcasts.
Get an iPod remote for use in the car.
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-99-15/rsa-patch. txt.asc
http://www.projectblackdog.com/site/index.html
There is no rocking action in this mouse!
You click just as you do now in the regular single button mouse, only now, thanks to the touch sensitive areas, it knows if you clicked with a finger on the left or the right side of the mouse!
This project is implementing a Java Virtual Machine. How in the world does this fragment the Java Language any more than let's say Apple or IBM's many JVM implementations?
Now, if Harmony intends to "extend" the Java Language by lets say, adding new keywords, just as Microsoft did with J++ at one point, then you can start worrying about Java Language fragmentation (in which case Sun would not allow Harmony to call itself a Java(TM) Virtual Machine).
You're not getting the point of Spotlight. Look at the spotlight demo on Apple's site. Notice that the search is almost instantanous and that spotlight categorizes the search results! You don't need subfolders/symlinks etc to oranize because spotlight presents you the results in an organized fashion.