apple's iOS is usually jailbroken before release, Apple doesn't care. they take the ideas and code that jailbreakers come up with and add them to their products. like the upcoming iOS 4.2 and changing the brightness without going to settings. it's a rip off from SBS Settings on jailbroken iphones
once iOS 4.2 comes out it's going to have brightness control outside the settings app, similar to SBS Settings. Doubt apple will release the code since they made a lot of changes. all you have to do is take the code, change enough of it to make it look like your own and release it
this is cool and what's going to happen is M$ is going to take the code and use it to add new features to Kinect in future releases. just like apple does with iphone jailbreak code and JB'd features
clicked a real ad on youtube for a Mario Bros game because my 3 year old was interested. installed it and then Symanted popped up a warning that it was a trojan
the government did this first in the days when supercomputers were less powerful than iphones and droids. back then the engineers had to actually do the math by hand and test everything via trial and error
the footage has the coast on the right side of the screen and the missile heading away from the camera, which if you look at a map means the missile is heading north. US missiles go over the north pole for targeting and range purposes due to the magnetic fields there. Pretty good chance this is just a test firing of a US sub launched missile
NYC traffic lights have been computerized for a long time. once in a while i drive to work into manhattan and you can tell this because during rush hour the lights are green most of the way. other times they have a lot of red lights to slow traffic down. i live on the boulevard of death and they have been playing with the light programming for a while
what do you expect to happen? i've lived in the US almost 30 years and everyone wants a government check and free health care but they don't want to pay for it.
we had this happen a few times and every time you go back to the developers who coded the website they always complained how it would take them too much time to change the code. even though changing the database permissions would be a snap
what else is new? since the internet came out the end point businesses like amazon/netflix and others have come with up with services that cost the ISP's more money
most of the good pixar movies aren't there. no disney tv shows like little einsteins. it's ok for my 3 year old who hasn't fully memorized all the episodes yet, but for older kids you need cable/dvd or vod
i have netflix and the streaming selection is pretty bad compared to the DVD selection. the reason is that they haven't struck deals with most content creators yet.
my cable bill is $130 a month for TV/DVR/Internet/phone and from what i've read approximately $30 of that goes to the content creators. for netflix to offer all the content there is they will probably have to raise their prices as they strike new deals for more content, especially if it will include movies and new TV shows that just played the night before.
if i wanted to dump cable i'd have to pay more for a la carte internet and more to AT&T to increase my cell phone plan to unlimited minutes. it would kill the entire deal since it makes more sense to just pay $10 a month for a DVR
and this theory is based on just he financials of striking content deals. netflix will have to pay a lot more in bandwidth costs as the amount of content increases.
i don't understand the entire streaming fad. it's only around because the cable companies are always a few years behind. with digital/HD cable what you watch on your cable box is essentially streaming except it's a lot more efficient than netflix's TCP/IP over the internet version. the cable companies just need to update their software and service selection
except with RIM all of your data flows through the Blackberry Internet Service so all they have to do is block it there. at least with apple and google there is no middle proxy between the carrier and the internet
except that if you have a movie on your phone it's compressed to look good on a small screen. on a 40" TV it will look like crap. it's the reason why BD disks can hold 50GB, because it takes more data to display a movie on a TV than a smaller screen like a phone or PMP
and how much better is it than marking a circle with a pen and having someone scan the ballot into a machine? most of the issues with e-voting have been that people are too dumb to see what they are doing
in the 1990's the military became very environmentally friendly since it's good for business. you need trees and the natural environment for realistic training. other than having no training zones for endangered species living on military bases we used to do things like put plastic under trucks while refueling so that diesel fuel wouldn't pollute the water table
it's always the little cultural things that amaze me. in the US the doctors say don't feed a child if they say no. my inlaws and my grandparents' generation believe in stuffing a kid till they burst and that a healthy child is obese by US standards. finally i figured it out. if you look at the last few hundred years of history in the USSR where i'm from there was always a war and/or a famine where 10% - 20% or more of the population died. so the parents would stuff the kid so if there wasn't enough food the body would live off the stored energy. and almost everyone i meet who had kids after WW2 in the USSR had at least one kid die in the womb or the first few years of life or an abortion due to lack of food
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apple's iOS is usually jailbroken before release, Apple doesn't care. they take the ideas and code that jailbreakers come up with and add them to their products. like the upcoming iOS 4.2 and changing the brightness without going to settings. it's a rip off from SBS Settings on jailbroken iphones
only if you use the same code
once iOS 4.2 comes out it's going to have brightness control outside the settings app, similar to SBS Settings. Doubt apple will release the code since they made a lot of changes. all you have to do is take the code, change enough of it to make it look like your own and release it
this is cool and what's going to happen is M$ is going to take the code and use it to add new features to Kinect in future releases. just like apple does with iphone jailbreak code and JB'd features
might not be hacking, but he still had no business going into her email
like a bad gift to cash in an envelope conversion
but bad gifts do serve a purpose, it's a free supply of crap you give to people where you have to give a gift but don't want to buy one
i thought all the kids were texting themselves and not teens of the opposite sex. or at most they were discussing books
clicked a real ad on youtube for a Mario Bros game because my 3 year old was interested. installed it and then Symanted popped up a warning that it was a trojan
the government did this first in the days when supercomputers were less powerful than iphones and droids. back then the engineers had to actually do the math by hand and test everything via trial and error
the footage has the coast on the right side of the screen and the missile heading away from the camera, which if you look at a map means the missile is heading north. US missiles go over the north pole for targeting and range purposes due to the magnetic fields there. Pretty good chance this is just a test firing of a US sub launched missile
bingo
NYC traffic lights have been computerized for a long time. once in a while i drive to work into manhattan and you can tell this because during rush hour the lights are green most of the way. other times they have a lot of red lights to slow traffic down. i live on the boulevard of death and they have been playing with the light programming for a while
what do you expect to happen? i've lived in the US almost 30 years and everyone wants a government check and free health care but they don't want to pay for it.
after 30 years i like the US, A LOT
we had this happen a few times and every time you go back to the developers who coded the website they always complained how it would take them too much time to change the code. even though changing the database permissions would be a snap
just use Google, they won't harvest your data
what else is new? since the internet came out the end point businesses like amazon/netflix and others have come with up with services that cost the ISP's more money
even the kids selection isn't that good
most of the good pixar movies aren't there. no disney tv shows like little einsteins. it's ok for my 3 year old who hasn't fully memorized all the episodes yet, but for older kids you need cable/dvd or vod
it was all bought up long ago and there was an article here a few weeks ago how most of it has been lit up and the bandwidth has almost been used up.
i have netflix and the streaming selection is pretty bad compared to the DVD selection. the reason is that they haven't struck deals with most content creators yet.
my cable bill is $130 a month for TV/DVR/Internet/phone and from what i've read approximately $30 of that goes to the content creators. for netflix to offer all the content there is they will probably have to raise their prices as they strike new deals for more content, especially if it will include movies and new TV shows that just played the night before.
if i wanted to dump cable i'd have to pay more for a la carte internet and more to AT&T to increase my cell phone plan to unlimited minutes. it would kill the entire deal since it makes more sense to just pay $10 a month for a DVR
and this theory is based on just he financials of striking content deals. netflix will have to pay a lot more in bandwidth costs as the amount of content increases.
i don't understand the entire streaming fad. it's only around because the cable companies are always a few years behind. with digital/HD cable what you watch on your cable box is essentially streaming except it's a lot more efficient than netflix's TCP/IP over the internet version. the cable companies just need to update their software and service selection
except with RIM all of your data flows through the Blackberry Internet Service so all they have to do is block it there. at least with apple and google there is no middle proxy between the carrier and the internet
do all the porn tube sites work with this?
except that if you have a movie on your phone it's compressed to look good on a small screen. on a 40" TV it will look like crap. it's the reason why BD disks can hold 50GB, because it takes more data to display a movie on a TV than a smaller screen like a phone or PMP
and how much better is it than marking a circle with a pen and having someone scan the ballot into a machine? most of the issues with e-voting have been that people are too dumb to see what they are doing
how is it malicious? the person installing it has to have physical access to the phone. it's not like going to a website and downloading a virus
isn't the Android Market supposed to be more open than the App store?
in the 1990's the military became very environmentally friendly since it's good for business. you need trees and the natural environment for realistic training. other than having no training zones for endangered species living on military bases we used to do things like put plastic under trucks while refueling so that diesel fuel wouldn't pollute the water table
one war in 1959-1959
compare that to afghanistan. constant invasions.
it's always the little cultural things that amaze me. in the US the doctors say don't feed a child if they say no. my inlaws and my grandparents' generation believe in stuffing a kid till they burst and that a healthy child is obese by US standards. finally i figured it out. if you look at the last few hundred years of history in the USSR where i'm from there was always a war and/or a famine where 10% - 20% or more of the population died. so the parents would stuff the kid so if there wasn't enough food the body would live off the stored energy. and almost everyone i meet who had kids after WW2 in the USSR had at least one kid die in the womb or the first few years of life or an abortion due to lack of food