Part of the document that every iPhone developer agrees to before their app ever gets on an iPhone basically states that Apple can use screenshots and videos of your apps, without your permission, and without ever notifying you.
The apps you see on billboards and in TV ads? Developers are rarely told about that before they air. Apps installed on the demo iPhones in Apple & ATT stores? Developers find out about those when someone sends them a picture of it. The dozens of of apps featured every week in the nearly 100 different country specific AppStores? The only way you find out about that is after a spike in your daily sales numbers.
That said, I'd be pretty pissed (and looking for a cheap patent lawyer) if one of my apps showed up in a patent filing, but I wouldn't be that surprised.
First off, I'm pretty sure TFA is talking about the ideal case of human vision. So, for those of us with merely average eyesight, the DPI required to exceed the angular resolution of your retina is a bit lower than quoted in the article. Secondly, who holds their phone 8 inches from their face? I just tried it, and it's uncomfortably close. I tend to hold mine about 12-18 inches away in common usage.
Finally, this is one of (if not the) highest DPI full color displays ever brought to market. Apple is counting pixels based on RGB triplets, not RG/BG pairs like many OLED displays such as the one found in the Nexus One (see this article for more info on the strange way OLED displays count pixels, and the problems this causes)
They also claim a few other enhancements in the display, such as reducing the space between the display and the front glass, and reducing the distance between individual subpixels, but I'll reserve judgement on those until I get a chance to see the display on an iPhone 4 in person.
There's a big difference between "This is the right tool for this job", "This is the only tool for this job" and "This is the tool everyone uses for this job"
By what measure is a live performance worse than a studio recording? Cost? Portability perhaps?
Even in the worst cases the band is just playing their CD over the stage speakers and lip-syncing to it, I don't see how that's worse than a record.
I'll consider through the eye of a SF reader : before the 80s computers worked. "Every computer glitch as a human origin" HAL taught us. (spoiler) it took a politician to make its perfect logic go amok. To say it in a nutshell, computers were deterministic.
Now fast-forward a few years. Cyberpunk. Computers fail, a skillful hacker can enter any system. Bugs cause catastrophes, virus take epic proportions.â¦
I see no contradiction. Windows doesn't crash because your processor executed instructions out of order, or a bit flipped in ram. No, It's because a bunch of ugly bags of mostly water wrote bad code that makes the computer crash. Then, the politicians, marketers and lawyers stepped in...
It's impossible to say what percentage of files on The Pirate Bay is illegal for two reasons: 1) It's subjective. What's illegal in one country might be legal in another, and what's legal before one judge might be illegal before another. 2) files are constantly being added. For example, try and determine what percentage of videos on YouTube contain cats doing something hilarious.
However, there's a surprising amount of content on TPB that is definitely legal, Linux ISOs of various vintages, books and video in the public domain, as well as content uploaded by it's author.
There's also a lot of content of questionable legality - is a No CD patch/crack legal? After all, it's just a series of instructions to change certain bits in a file matching a specific hash. How about a keygen? That's essentially a random number generator, unless you have the program it makes keys for. Probably depends on the laws in your country.
'Fake' files are likely also legal to download, as they tend to be random data and/or uploaded by (agents of) the copyright holders.
You would be right in saying that little of that has to do with the name Pirate Bay, though.
No they're not. They're a computer solutions company. Apple has said this before "We make the whole widget".
Nobody would buy an iPhone if it ran Android or Windows Mobile (never mind that android would hardly exist today if it weren't for the jolt the iPhone has provided to the 'smartphone' market) Nobody would buy their wireless hardware (AppleTV, Airport Express/Extreme) if it didn't integrate seamlessly and effortlessly with their OS and applications Their laptop line could probably stand on it's own (the unibody MacBooks have the best build quality of any laptop I've used) But even here I suspect Apple makes most of the profit from software integration (Selling MobileMe accounts, itunes music and apps, 'premium' software like iWork, Final Cut, Logic Studio, Aperture, etc)
Apple's business model (and the value consumers get from buying an Apple product) comes from the hardware AND the software, as one inseparable product.
What's with all the unnessicary bolding that seems to occur ever three or four words. It almost seems like their word processor is trying to speak like Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise.
If I had a nickel for every time someone proposed a hypothetical cure for cancer, why, I'd have enough to start my own research facility for creating hypothetical cures for cancer!
Hmm, what's the difference between a single-shot radiation hardened FILM camera built in the 1940s designed to take pictures of ENORMOUS & insanely bright things (Nuclear explosions) and a 'camera' that records interference patterns in light to film CELLS at 6 million frames per second?
Gee, I dunno, they sound pretty similar to me.
This new one only has an imaging area of 50x50 pixels - the film in the Rapatronic can surely beat that!
A webcam can't track with that kind of 3d accuracy. Especially not without sticking some kind of marker(s) on your hand. Also, it looks like this method for tracking could easily be expanded to a whole desk, wall or floor just by adding more sensors (they seem to be spaced about 1 foot apart in each direction)
Seamless multi-camera tracking is definitely not trivial.
Everyone has been focusing on the how easy/difficult it would be to reverse this hypothetical algorithm that would determine based on your use of a webpage if you're human or not......I see a more fundamental problem. This is on the internet, so they have basically 3 options on how to implement this. 1) server side. The only variable you could track is time between page requests. Don't see how that could possibly be enough information 2) Client side JS. Simple, just modify the JS to return &isHuman=true 3) Client side JS acting as a keylogger, sending back for server side verification. Harder to defeat, but you'll lose my business, the business of all of my friends, and have a horde of angry nerds picket your offices.
Also, this doesn't take into account any edge cases, for example if I've already been to your site, surf straight to/contact.html and paste in a email I previously wrote in Word(err, excuse me, OOo)
If you're that worried about how you're going to get porn when the terrorists cut all the fiber to your city, you might want to watch this video. These gentlemen have done some amazing research on the subject.
The only truly secure computer is one that has been powered off, disconnected from any and all networks, encased in a 1 inch thick lead box, then buried under 25 feet of concrete inside a guarded military compound.
While an anti-gravity pod fulled by love and gravy would be nice, I'll be buying the model that's powered by animosity and trans-fats. Sure, it's not as nice to look at, but you can refuel in many more locations.
Personally, I prefer things like a contacts list and a GUI in my email client. Gmail is certainly the fastest GUI client when you have folders(labels) with >10,000 messages in them (or just many gigs of email in general)
Also, nothing else compares to their spam filter (or at least, nothing did in ~early 2005 when I switched to Gmail, and it's only gotten better.) The only false positives it's ever flagged were a couple spammy looking "click here to confirm your account" type messages.
There is a high level format like the one you speak of. COLLADA another open standard managed by the Khronos group. Many 3D authoring applications and game engines support this format, and I would not be at all surprised if they chose COLLADA as the format for transferring geometry in this new 3D web standard.
I guess if Fiber-to-the-Home isn't fast enough, you've got to try Fiber-to-the-Brain.
Stream porn straight to your visual cortex. Backup your memories with Google Hippocampus Beta. I guess mobility might be a bit of a problem, though. I wonder if it comes with one of those cool head jars?
Several people in this thread have suggested that you don't need to be concerned about security because you can just encrypt your files.
However, I believe the TOS for such a GDrive service might prohibit storing encrypted files with the service for two main reasons 1. Encrypted data doesn't compress well. If google is giving away hard drive space for free, they're going to want to be as efficient about this as possible. Most people will be storing text files, photos or other data that's trivial to compress further - and I would imagine most Gmail and Gdrive users will use less than half the space given to them. 2. You can't do data mining on encrypted data. This is why you want to encrypt your data, and the main reason they won't want you to. Google is in the business of knowing everything (and then using that knowledge to sell narrowly target ads) This is the reason they're willing to give out free space.
actually, a book only contains ink and paper. It requires an operator with years of experience "reading" books to convert that ink and paper into content like words, a story or a poem.
You can't bundle software with accessories (hardware or software for another platform).
I'd be pretty pissed if I bought this fancy iPhone balistics calculator clip thing, got it home and found I had to pay ANOTHER $12 to get the software for it.
I'm sure we'll see more and more accessories like this - A rifle can't be the only thing that's more useful if you clip a specialized calculator or some data entry on it. And while the iPhone/iPod touch probably isn't even the best off the shelf device to use for this type of application, the iPhone still the cool gadget and will get you headlines if you do something weird like this with it.
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Part of the document that every iPhone developer agrees to before their app ever gets on an iPhone basically states that Apple can use screenshots and videos of your apps, without your permission, and without ever notifying you.
The apps you see on billboards and in TV ads? Developers are rarely told about that before they air. Apps installed on the demo iPhones in Apple & ATT stores? Developers find out about those when someone sends them a picture of it. The dozens of of apps featured every week in the nearly 100 different country specific AppStores? The only way you find out about that is after a spike in your daily sales numbers.
That said, I'd be pretty pissed (and looking for a cheap patent lawyer) if one of my apps showed up in a patent filing, but I wouldn't be that surprised.
First off, I'm pretty sure TFA is talking about the ideal case of human vision. So, for those of us with merely average eyesight, the DPI required to exceed the angular resolution of your retina is a bit lower than quoted in the article. Secondly, who holds their phone 8 inches from their face? I just tried it, and it's uncomfortably close. I tend to hold mine about 12-18 inches away in common usage.
Finally, this is one of (if not the) highest DPI full color displays ever brought to market. Apple is counting pixels based on RGB triplets, not RG/BG pairs like many OLED displays such as the one found in the Nexus One (see this article for more info on the strange way OLED displays count pixels, and the problems this causes)
They also claim a few other enhancements in the display, such as reducing the space between the display and the front glass, and reducing the distance between individual subpixels, but I'll reserve judgement on those until I get a chance to see the display on an iPhone 4 in person.
we've ALL driven too fast on an icy road.
Nope, sorry. I've lived my whole life in Los Angeles. The closest that I've ever come to an icy road is one time when my ice maker overflowed.
There's a big difference between "This is the right tool for this job", "This is the only tool for this job" and "This is the tool everyone uses for this job"
I lost my virginity at the age of 15, you insensitive clod!
...then a few years later I started developing games and found that sadly women don't find that nearly as cool as I do.
But the rest of what you said is spot on.
By what measure is a live performance worse than a studio recording? Cost? Portability perhaps? Even in the worst cases the band is just playing their CD over the stage speakers and lip-syncing to it, I don't see how that's worse than a record.
I'll consider through the eye of a SF reader : before the 80s computers worked. "Every computer glitch as a human origin" HAL taught us. (spoiler) it took a politician to make its perfect logic go amok. To say it in a nutshell, computers were deterministic. Now fast-forward a few years. Cyberpunk. Computers fail, a skillful hacker can enter any system. Bugs cause catastrophes, virus take epic proportions.â¦
I see no contradiction. Windows doesn't crash because your processor executed instructions out of order, or a bit flipped in ram. No, It's because a bunch of ugly bags of mostly water wrote bad code that makes the computer crash. Then, the politicians, marketers and lawyers stepped in...
It's impossible to say what percentage of files on The Pirate Bay is illegal for two reasons: 1) It's subjective. What's illegal in one country might be legal in another, and what's legal before one judge might be illegal before another. 2) files are constantly being added. For example, try and determine what percentage of videos on YouTube contain cats doing something hilarious.
However, there's a surprising amount of content on TPB that is definitely legal, Linux ISOs of various vintages, books and video in the public domain, as well as content uploaded by it's author.
There's also a lot of content of questionable legality - is a No CD patch/crack legal? After all, it's just a series of instructions to change certain bits in a file matching a specific hash. How about a keygen? That's essentially a random number generator, unless you have the program it makes keys for. Probably depends on the laws in your country.
'Fake' files are likely also legal to download, as they tend to be random data and/or uploaded by (agents of) the copyright holders.
You would be right in saying that little of that has to do with the name Pirate Bay, though.
No they're not. They're a computer solutions company. Apple has said this before "We make the whole widget".
Nobody would buy an iPhone if it ran Android or Windows Mobile (never mind that android would hardly exist today if it weren't for the jolt the iPhone has provided to the 'smartphone' market)
Nobody would buy their wireless hardware (AppleTV, Airport Express/Extreme) if it didn't integrate seamlessly and effortlessly with their OS and applications
Their laptop line could probably stand on it's own (the unibody MacBooks have the best build quality of any laptop I've used) But even here I suspect Apple makes most of the profit from software integration (Selling MobileMe accounts, itunes music and apps, 'premium' software like iWork, Final Cut, Logic Studio, Aperture, etc)
Apple's business model (and the value consumers get from buying an Apple product) comes from the hardware AND the software, as one inseparable product.
What's with all the unnessicary bolding that seems to occur ever three or four words. It almost seems like their word processor is trying to speak like Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise.
That's actually pretty cool, and not at all scary (at least, no scarier than the bunker buster sized bomb they'd be dropping on the target anyway)
The other 190+ comments with Robocop/Terminator jokes (and the discussion thereof) is, however, far more entertaining.
If I had a nickel for every time someone proposed a hypothetical cure for cancer, why, I'd have enough to start my own research facility for creating hypothetical cures for cancer!
Just think of the unlimited profit opportunities!
Hmm, what's the difference between a single-shot radiation hardened FILM camera built in the 1940s designed to take pictures of ENORMOUS & insanely bright things (Nuclear explosions) and a 'camera' that records interference patterns in light to film CELLS at 6 million frames per second?
Gee, I dunno, they sound pretty similar to me.
This new one only has an imaging area of 50x50 pixels - the film in the Rapatronic can surely beat that!
A webcam can't track with that kind of 3d accuracy. Especially not without sticking some kind of marker(s) on your hand. Also, it looks like this method for tracking could easily be expanded to a whole desk, wall or floor just by adding more sensors (they seem to be spaced about 1 foot apart in each direction)
Seamless multi-camera tracking is definitely not trivial.
Everyone has been focusing on the how easy/difficult it would be to reverse this hypothetical algorithm that would determine based on your use of a webpage if you're human or not... ...I see a more fundamental problem. This is on the internet, so they have basically 3 options on how to implement this.
1) server side. The only variable you could track is time between page requests. Don't see how that could possibly be enough information
2) Client side JS. Simple, just modify the JS to return &isHuman=true
3) Client side JS acting as a keylogger, sending back for server side verification. Harder to defeat, but you'll lose my business, the business of all of my friends, and have a horde of angry nerds picket your offices.
Also, this doesn't take into account any edge cases, for example if I've already been to your site, surf straight to /contact.html and paste in a email I previously wrote in Word(err, excuse me, OOo)
About the same way slashdot does.
If you're that worried about how you're going to get porn when the terrorists cut all the fiber to your city, you might want to watch this video. These gentlemen have done some amazing research on the subject.
The only truly secure computer is one that has been powered off, disconnected from any and all networks, encased in a 1 inch thick lead box, then buried under 25 feet of concrete inside a guarded military compound.
While an anti-gravity pod fulled by love and gravy would be nice, I'll be buying the model that's powered by animosity and trans-fats. Sure, it's not as nice to look at, but you can refuel in many more locations.
Sup dawg, we heard you liked legacy applications so we put an emulator in your visualization so you can compute while u compute!
Personally, I prefer things like a contacts list and a GUI in my email client. Gmail is certainly the fastest GUI client when you have folders(labels) with >10,000 messages in them (or just many gigs of email in general)
Also, nothing else compares to their spam filter (or at least, nothing did in ~early 2005 when I switched to Gmail, and it's only gotten better.) The only false positives it's ever flagged were a couple spammy looking "click here to confirm your account" type messages.
There is a high level format like the one you speak of. COLLADA another open standard managed by the Khronos group. Many 3D authoring applications and game engines support this format, and I would not be at all surprised if they chose COLLADA as the format for transferring geometry in this new 3D web standard.
I guess if Fiber-to-the-Home isn't fast enough, you've got to try Fiber-to-the-Brain.
Stream porn straight to your visual cortex. Backup your memories with Google Hippocampus Beta. I guess mobility might be a bit of a problem, though. I wonder if it comes with one of those cool head jars?
Several people in this thread have suggested that you don't need to be concerned about security because you can just encrypt your files.
However, I believe the TOS for such a GDrive service might prohibit storing encrypted files with the service for two main reasons
1. Encrypted data doesn't compress well. If google is giving away hard drive space for free, they're going to want to be as efficient about this as possible. Most people will be storing text files, photos or other data that's trivial to compress further - and I would imagine most Gmail and Gdrive users will use less than half the space given to them.
2. You can't do data mining on encrypted data. This is why you want to encrypt your data, and the main reason they won't want you to. Google is in the business of knowing everything (and then using that knowledge to sell narrowly target ads) This is the reason they're willing to give out free space.
actually, a book only contains ink and paper. It requires an operator with years of experience "reading" books to convert that ink and paper into content like words, a story or a poem.
You can't bundle software with accessories (hardware or software for another platform).
I'd be pretty pissed if I bought this fancy iPhone balistics calculator clip thing, got it home and found I had to pay ANOTHER $12 to get the software for it.
I'm sure we'll see more and more accessories like this - A rifle can't be the only thing that's more useful if you clip a specialized calculator or some data entry on it. And while the iPhone/iPod touch probably isn't even the best off the shelf device to use for this type of application, the iPhone still the cool gadget and will get you headlines if you do something weird like this with it.