why would anyone want to pay for proprietary hardware... controlled by one company..which sums up Apple and iPhone in a nutshell.
I know what you mean! It pisses me off so much when my Pioneer stereo breaks and I take it to the Sony vendor and they refuse to fix it. It's all damn proprietary hardware.
please tell me how to use an iPhone with Verizon, or for that matter, how I keep Apple from remotely disabling FStream if they decide to do so.
Complaining that you can't use your iPhone with Verizon is like complaining that you can't get Sirius on your AM transistor radio. It's a different type of signal... why is this so hard to grasp? If you want to brand one as "proprietary", it would be Verizon, since the majority of the world is using GSM not CDMA, and the iPhone is usable on any GSM network. Apple didn't develop some magical protocol that only the iPhone uses.
Second, Apple cannot disable FStream. The most they can do is remove it from the app store. There was never any conclusive proof either way, but the conclusion most people reached is that since the disable code was stored in the CoreLocation framework, it was for disabling apps from using location services.
Apple throws lawsuits around left and right. They attack fans for blogging about their products. I remember reading in Wired about a twelve-year old girl who offered a product suggestion to improve her iPod. Apple sent a threatening legal letter in response, demanding that she not offer suggestions.
Actually, it was a generic legal-ese form letter saying they don't take product suggestions. Nice try, though.
Firstly... has the AIM team just thrown in the towel on AIM for Mac?
Second... I've found the iPhone client to be horribly glitchy when you close the app without signing off. If messages are sent to me while it's closed, I just get blank messages upon reopening the client.
Because there's something to be said for having walk-in support at the Apple store, the Apple user interface, access to the app/music store... shall I go on? People buying an iPhone likely aren't buying it based on specs.
also, i kinda like how they didn't actually explain anything but let the movie do it for you... it adds alot of mystery to the movie when you only know what the characters know, and irony can still be introduced by letting different characters know different things (like when the main char had no idea about those little monsters)
That was one of Hitchcock's best techniques. When Jimmy Stewart and the audience know the neighbor is returning to the apartment, but the girl inside doesn't, it gets intense.
Cloverfield's videography truly made me feel like a pro was trying to act like an amateur and failing. The move would have actually been better, in my opinion, if they'd given the camera to the actual actors and made them do everything themselves while acting the actual scenes. You would have at leas gotten shakiness that made more sense with the action.
You're totally right. Last semester I had to do a project for a department head that involved shooting stock footage that students in a television class would later have to linear edit into some sort of PSA. Part of my guidelines were to create footage that was good, some that was alright, some that was subtly bad (ie slight soft focus) and some downright awful.
Creating subtly bad footage was the most difficult part.
If I were an iPod touch owner, I'd be pretty offended that I have to pay $20 (well, disregarding free jailbreaking options and whatnot) for an update that iPhone users get for free.
Free, whereas free means "free plus a monthly service charge for cell phone service"
1. Going from XP to 98 was a big shift. It was bye bye 9x kernel, hello NT kernel. And now, 6+ years later, XP is pretty rock solid once completely patched.
2. Vista was supposed to be the "next big thing", and so far it offers nothing spectacular that makes leaving XP behind worth it.
When something is hyped for over 5 years as the next big thing, and when it comes out it is anything but, it leads to disappointment.
The EPA estimate on my large car (I'm not even a radical hypermiler) is 35 mpg on th ehighway, I can get 36 if I do 50MPH (which REALLY pisses people off, even though I stay in the right lane).
You do know what ESTIMATE means, right? It means the EPA said "this will get 35mpg, give or take a few in either direction"
Take this OS, but beware, it contains monitoring software. That's bad. But it comes with a free legitimate license! That's good! The legitimate license also contains monitoring software. That's bad. But you get your choice of XP or Vista! That's good! There are no more copies of XP, only Vista......That's bad. Can I go now?
They say DRM is bad for the consumer, but this is one point where it's actually working in the consumer's favor.
Apple controls the iTMS DRM. The iTMS DRM is the only DRM supported on the iPod. Having your music store work on an iPod is critical. Since working on iPods is critical to the success of any music store right now, there is only one option to sell digitally outside the iTMS and do that - no DRM. Apple's control has left the labels no choice. We would not be seeing this if iTMS DRM was opened up for licensing like everyone whines for them to do.
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why would anyone want to pay for proprietary hardware ... controlled by one company ..which sums up Apple and iPhone in a nutshell.
I know what you mean! It pisses me off so much when my Pioneer stereo breaks and I take it to the Sony vendor and they refuse to fix it. It's all damn proprietary hardware.
please tell me how to use an iPhone with Verizon, or for that matter, how I keep Apple from remotely disabling FStream if they decide to do so.
Complaining that you can't use your iPhone with Verizon is like complaining that you can't get Sirius on your AM transistor radio. It's a different type of signal... why is this so hard to grasp? If you want to brand one as "proprietary", it would be Verizon, since the majority of the world is using GSM not CDMA, and the iPhone is usable on any GSM network. Apple didn't develop some magical protocol that only the iPhone uses.
Second, Apple cannot disable FStream. The most they can do is remove it from the app store. There was never any conclusive proof either way, but the conclusion most people reached is that since the disable code was stored in the CoreLocation framework, it was for disabling apps from using location services.
Apple throws lawsuits around left and right. They attack fans for blogging about their products. I remember reading in Wired about a twelve-year old girl who offered a product suggestion to improve her iPod. Apple sent a threatening legal letter in response, demanding that she not offer suggestions.
Actually, it was a generic legal-ese form letter saying they don't take product suggestions. Nice try, though.
There will be a push notification service available to developers for roll out in September.
Firstly... has the AIM team just thrown in the towel on AIM for Mac?
Second... I've found the iPhone client to be horribly glitchy when you close the app without signing off. If messages are sent to me while it's closed, I just get blank messages upon reopening the client.
Because there's something to be said for having walk-in support at the Apple store, the Apple user interface, access to the app/music store... shall I go on? People buying an iPhone likely aren't buying it based on specs.
This annoys the shit out of me, I'll open Safari or Adium and for some reason my USB drive spins up (and no, Time Machine is not starting up)
802.1X authentication is the one thing keeping the Touch from being as useful as an iPhone for me, since my campus has ubiquitous wifi with PEAP.
Why Apple would deliberately lock themselves out of a HUGE customer base of other carriers is beyond me
Cause they went to verizon and the response was "eh, no thanks, we're not interested. it's just a passing fad, like the talkie pictures".
I personally buy electronic gadgets first for the functionality. The form is a nice add-on but hardly the killer feature.
The form is essential to the functionality
also, i kinda like how they didn't actually explain anything but let the movie do it for you... it adds alot of mystery to the movie when you only know what the characters know, and irony can still be introduced by letting different characters know different things (like when the main char had no idea about those little monsters)
That was one of Hitchcock's best techniques. When Jimmy Stewart and the audience know the neighbor is returning to the apartment, but the girl inside doesn't, it gets intense.
Cloverfield's videography truly made me feel like a pro was trying to act like an amateur and failing. The move would have actually been better, in my opinion, if they'd given the camera to the actual actors and made them do everything themselves while acting the actual scenes. You would have at leas gotten shakiness that made more sense with the action.
You're totally right. Last semester I had to do a project for a department head that involved shooting stock footage that students in a television class would later have to linear edit into some sort of PSA. Part of my guidelines were to create footage that was good, some that was alright, some that was subtly bad (ie slight soft focus) and some downright awful.
Creating subtly bad footage was the most difficult part.
If I were an iPod touch owner, I'd be pretty offended that I have to pay $20 (well, disregarding free jailbreaking options and whatnot) for an update that iPhone users get for free.
Free, whereas free means "free plus a monthly service charge for cell phone service"
Poland is using IR to remote control their tram switches? That's just asking for trouble.
Explain to me why a game console is considered dead when it stops being produced.
Because the user base stops growing. When it stops growing, all it can do is shrink.
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I see what you did there.
Two things.
1. Going from XP to 98 was a big shift. It was bye bye 9x kernel, hello NT kernel. And now, 6+ years later, XP is pretty rock solid once completely patched.
2. Vista was supposed to be the "next big thing", and so far it offers nothing spectacular that makes leaving XP behind worth it.
When something is hyped for over 5 years as the next big thing, and when it comes out it is anything but, it leads to disappointment.
Letting you install Windows or any other OS with Boot Camp is a prime example of how locked down Apple's machines are.
The EPA estimate on my large car (I'm not even a radical hypermiler) is 35 mpg on th ehighway, I can get 36 if I do 50MPH (which REALLY pisses people off, even though I stay in the right lane).
You do know what ESTIMATE means, right? It means the EPA said "this will get 35mpg, give or take a few in either direction"
Take this OS, but beware, it contains monitoring software. .....That's bad.
That's bad.
But it comes with a free legitimate license!
That's good!
The legitimate license also contains monitoring software.
That's bad.
But you get your choice of XP or Vista!
That's good!
There are no more copies of XP, only Vista.
Can I go now?
Vox populi, vox Dei.
Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.
Not everywhere. No licenses until 17 here in Jersey.
They say DRM is bad for the consumer, but this is one point where it's actually working in the consumer's favor.
Apple controls the iTMS DRM. The iTMS DRM is the only DRM supported on the iPod. Having your music store work on an iPod is critical. Since working on iPods is critical to the success of any music store right now, there is only one option to sell digitally outside the iTMS and do that - no DRM. Apple's control has left the labels no choice. We would not be seeing this if iTMS DRM was opened up for licensing like everyone whines for them to do.
Actually, NBC and Universal are now one - NBC Universal - under the GE umbrella.
My favorite useless app we have is a small red E on a shield in the system tray. You double click it and it opens an intranet page along the lines of
WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO
-Evacuate the building
-Report a fire or police emergency
-I received a suspicious package
etc