I do not think it was trolling, if you are doing some serious work, get off your iPad. I have a iPad myself, and like many have stated before, its a device used to watch media and browse, you can stream video just fine at WIFI speeds, not sure what else you want to do here, if you really want a good connection plug a wire in. Wireless will never top a wired connection, you have to much interference, and retransmissions just at layer 1, its nice and all, but if you can plug in... do! I had a buddy recently buy a PC from Best Buy and paid the Geek Squad to hook his new PC up witha new wireless router, the router sat only a few feet on his desk, and still they hooked his PC up using the wireless connection, I changed that for him right way, why would you do that? Is the original poster asking for us to make wireless as good as wired? because thats not going to happen.
That, and the fact that I tend to believe more and more that wireless (Wi-Fi at least) actually has an impact on health. I have a friend whose daughters got headaches the day he powered his WiFi router. He did some double blind testing (nobody in the house was remotely aware of what he was doing). Every day the router was on, both daughters got headaches. The days it was off, they got none. He kept running this for two entire month, some days on, some days off. 100% match. No wifi ever again for him.
It gave me the idea to do the same at home, since my wife has been suffering headaches for a while now. And it looks like a winner so far. The test is over yet, and my sex life is already up;-)
Well, it looks like Wifi will soon be banned at my home too.
Sure, sure. This is all well and good. But what he really meant is "There!", which is customarily associated with the french word "Voilà" which means the same. And it is often found with the wrong spelling, somewhat changing its meaning.
This story kind of gives me a chill. I mean, I do manage servers and for sure a "carefully planned, very professional, highly sophisticated criminal cyber attack" would come into my systems. I mean, security is relative. If someone wants to get in, they'll get in eventually. If Stuxnet did anything, it was to point that out.
Now, I'm not saying that this was sophisticated attack. I don't know. But the fact remains that any network/server can fall to this kind of stuff.
You can charge anything you want for GPL software. $1b if you want. Your call.
But when the software is distributed, you must provide the source code free of charge. And you cannot prevent your customer from distributing said source code.
As far as Oracle is concerned, if they keep on improving MySQL and if they keep the community edition free, then it's all for the best. Why complaining?
I installed it the day it was out. The menubar is somewhat different, so what?
For me, it's working fine and I'm sticking with it. Gnome fanboys will not appreciate it, but Unity feels a bit slicker than Gnome. And the user experience is so close it's almost undistinguishable.
And all that appeals to different usages. Hence, not the same set of apps. Some common bunch of apps - mail, browser, facebook, etc, but certainly some apps that are very different.
That said, the iPhone has the same GPU, same HDMI port, SD cards are identically supported, equivalent storage space for 66% of the iPads. All you get is a bigger screen and better battery life.
Android owners would see the benefit of an Android tablet. I logged into a Samsung Galaxy with my Gmail account and lo and behold it started downloading all my apps including my paid ones. I'm holding out to buy one though, it's still early days.
That sounds stupid to me. If you install the same apps you have on your phone, what's the point of having a tablet?
#7 is not a real reason. The community might build itself once the code is released. Or not, but the entire point of the article is that it CAN if it is released, it CANNOT if it isn't.
I didn't say you own it, I said it's in your control. And it is. Strings may be attached, but if your DVDs are stored in proper conditions you will most certainly be able to read them in 30 years. Assuming there will be a licensed player still in store then.
Right on spot. If you give your data away, you give your data away. It is not yours anymore. What the providers guarantees while online dies with the company as people are busy updating their resumes. Whatever means you may have to get to them (legal for example) is usually moot as well since the company is no more.
What you have on YOUR hard drive, on YOUR dvds, YOUR tapes is in YOUR control. Note that it is not necessarily better.
So I see you suspect malice over incompetence, but you failed to provide the main proof for malice: The motive. Why would Apple do such a thing? What do they have to gain by letting a trail like this on all phones?
If nobody KNOWS, then nobody KNOWS. The GP said "That's not an uncleaned cache, it's a deliberately maintained database." The tense implies that this is a known fact, when the information was just pulled out of his arse.
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I do not think it was trolling, if you are doing some serious work, get off your iPad.
I have a iPad myself, and like many have stated before, its a device used to watch media and browse, you can stream video just fine at WIFI speeds, not sure what else you want to do here, if you really want a good connection plug a wire in.
Wireless will never top a wired connection, you have to much interference, and retransmissions just at layer 1, its nice and all, but if you can plug in... do!
I had a buddy recently buy a PC from Best Buy and paid the Geek Squad to hook his new PC up witha new wireless router, the router sat only a few feet on his desk, and still they hooked his PC up using the wireless connection, I changed that for him right way, why would you do that?
Is the original poster asking for us to make wireless as good as wired? because thats not going to happen.
That, and the fact that I tend to believe more and more that wireless (Wi-Fi at least) actually has an impact on health. I have a friend whose daughters got headaches the day he powered his WiFi router. He did some double blind testing (nobody in the house was remotely aware of what he was doing). Every day the router was on, both daughters got headaches. The days it was off, they got none. He kept running this for two entire month, some days on, some days off. 100% match. No wifi ever again for him.
It gave me the idea to do the same at home, since my wife has been suffering headaches for a while now. And it looks like a winner so far. The test is over yet, and my sex life is already up ;-)
Well, it looks like Wifi will soon be banned at my home too.
You forgot that Duke Nukem is coming out this year in June.
In this regard, this year is no different from the 10 previous ones.
"works on Android, iPhone, Windows, Mac"
Missing an important one there... Take a guess...
BeOS ?
Sure, sure. This is all well and good. But what he really meant is "There!", which is customarily associated with the french word "Voilà" which means the same. And it is often found with the wrong spelling, somewhat changing its meaning.
Viola.
Learn your french. "Viola" literally means "raped" which I doubt is what you meant.
The proper term is 'Voila' which is even better written "Voilà".
Not my wake up call. Just another reminder.
This story kind of gives me a chill. I mean, I do manage servers and for sure a "carefully planned, very professional, highly sophisticated criminal cyber attack" would come into my systems. I mean, security is relative. If someone wants to get in, they'll get in eventually. If Stuxnet did anything, it was to point that out.
Now, I'm not saying that this was sophisticated attack. I don't know. But the fact remains that any network/server can fall to this kind of stuff.
You can charge anything you want for GPL software. $1b if you want. Your call.
But when the software is distributed, you must provide the source code free of charge. And you cannot prevent your customer from distributing said source code.
As far as Oracle is concerned, if they keep on improving MySQL and if they keep the community edition free, then it's all for the best. Why complaining?
I installed it the day it was out. The menubar is somewhat different, so what?
For me, it's working fine and I'm sticking with it. Gnome fanboys will not appreciate it, but Unity feels a bit slicker than Gnome. And the user experience is so close it's almost undistinguishable.
+100 Insightful.
What Google did to Java barely has anything to do with what Microsoft did. Are you aware of that?
Yes, by being able to chose multiple apt-get repositories, I'm not restricted to software approved by one person.
Yes, we all got that from your first post. Re-read the GGP. It is just off-topic.
It is nice. It is true. We all agree. But is has nothing to do with the point being made by the GGP. And your post doesn't even try to explain.
And all that appeals to different usages. Hence, not the same set of apps. Some common bunch of apps - mail, browser, facebook, etc, but certainly some apps that are very different.
That said, the iPhone has the same GPU, same HDMI port, SD cards are identically supported, equivalent storage space for 66% of the iPads. All you get is a bigger screen and better battery life.
Android owners would see the benefit of an Android tablet. I logged into a Samsung Galaxy with my Gmail account and lo and behold it started downloading all my apps including my paid ones. I'm holding out to buy one though, it's still early days.
That sounds stupid to me. If you install the same apps you have on your phone, what's the point of having a tablet?
I can add multiple apt-get sources on my machine, and check them all from a single 'apt-get update' or using a graphical tool.
So? Does it address in any way the point the GP brought up?
#7 is not a real reason. The community might build itself once the code is released. Or not, but the entire point of the article is that it CAN if it is released, it CANNOT if it isn't.
I didn't say you own it, I said it's in your control. And it is. Strings may be attached, but if your DVDs are stored in proper conditions you will most certainly be able to read them in 30 years. Assuming there will be a licensed player still in store then.
Right on spot. If you give your data away, you give your data away. It is not yours anymore. What the providers guarantees while online dies with the company as people are busy updating their resumes. Whatever means you may have to get to them (legal for example) is usually moot as well since the company is no more.
What you have on YOUR hard drive, on YOUR dvds, YOUR tapes is in YOUR control. Note that it is not necessarily better.
The most interesting thing in the article is the last sentence:
[UPDATE: Exactly the same kind of information seems to be getting stored on Android phones. Here's an application you can use to dump it out...]
So Apple users know they're not alone ;-)
I just interviewed with Google last week and am due for my second round at 2pm today. Things look fine on my end....
FWIW, I graduated in 1998. Questions were around writing practical stuff (utility methods or basic frameworks)
So I see you suspect malice over incompetence, but you failed to provide the main proof for malice: The motive. Why would Apple do such a thing? What do they have to gain by letting a trail like this on all phones?
Stop trying to make yourself look foolish
If nobody KNOWS, then nobody KNOWS. The GP said "That's not an uncleaned cache, it's a deliberately maintained database." The tense implies that this is a known fact, when the information was just pulled out of his arse.
Might be true. Might not. Who knows?
REST (in its original sense) is not an architecture, it's a bunch of concepts and good practices.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REST
And there goes your sense of humour.
Have you ever wondered if that name sounded that bad in other languages? You know, the stuff 90% of earth talks with...