The latter is only a matter of time, after all you do not expect a device with a general purpose OS where everything runs as root to last long, do you? What's Windows got to do with this?:)
Seriously, what makes you think everything runs as root on the iPhone?
The iPhone doesn't use SIM cards. You have to "activate it" via iTunes.
It has a sim card, but it's a weird one. No it's a standard SIM card. The phone is just locked so it can't accept other SIMs. Once you have your AT&T account setup you should be able to use your iPhone SIM is any unlocked GSM phone.
Why would Apple care if these devices aren't being subsidised, they still get their sale. If anyone is to sue it'd be AT&T.
On its own this development will only cater for those who are not interested in the phone component, but if he can find a way to unlock it then it'll be a lot more useful.
Why? So we could all be stuck with ugly Zune that use crappy MS-Only DRM? No thanks.
Oh, and what MS marketing droid came up with the term "squirt"? Seriously, how could some MS marketing drones think that people would "dig" the phrase, "squirt"? Hey babe, wacha listening to? Cool, could you "squirt" that to me?... Slap! "Squirt" a song and 3 days later the "squirt" is gone! "Squirt"... every time I think of that and the Zune I laugh.
Yo dog, what ya doin?.... Not much, just "squirting" with my boyz. I doubt any marketing person in MS decided on that term, the only person I've seen use it in an official context is Ballmer so I believe that term is definitely a monkeyboy invention.
I bet the marketing people were very embarassed by that moment, it even further reduced the little coolness factor that this device had.
If, for example, I buy 10 CDs and give them to 10 friends, isn't that legal? It sounds as if this is essentially what Prince is doing. Oddly enough there's more than 10 people read the Mail on Sunday. Worrying really (if you've ever read it you'll know what I mean).
Of course it's the Mail that'll be paying for the CD's to be produced in order to sell more papers.
Yes, and there's also a chance that I could hit the lottery, too. The potential risks of software (especially MS software) being discontinued and being completely SOL is a minor one. Sure, it could happen, and I could be hit by lightning, too. It's just not all that realistic, and in most cases, not a very good reason for considering or not considering a piece of business software. Of the top of my head, IE6 was effectively discontinued, no sign of improvements were made for years. The Firefox started becoming popular, Microsoft revived the IE team, we got IE6SP2 and IE7 out of it. Can you honestly tell me that IE development would have been revived without Firefox being a success? If you say it would then why did they stop development in the first place. Also at one time good old dependable Microsoft were committed to supporting IE on Mac and even Solaris (look it up), these completely died ages ago.
Now, IE is the most obvious example, but I'm sure other people could find more. On the leisure market, people who invested in plays for sure music only to find that if they bought a zune it certainly wouldn't play.
That's for the $10 copies. There are, however, the $400 copies, in which case people are fooled into thinking that the $400 they're paying for this program is going to Microsoft instead of some thief's pocket. That's not a nice thing to say about Ballmer
Just look at the properties of any downloaded iTunes music file (at least on Mac OS X, not sure how Windows Explorer is useful in this regard) and it lists the purchase date along with the name of the person who purchased it.
This is the case for DRM and non-DRM'd files, it's not something Apple added when they scrapped the DRM it's just something they didn't take out.
As it's trivial to alter then it's no way of tracking users, it's just extra metadata.
Remember when the BBC were developing their own open source video codec (Google dirac for more info)? All looked promising, the thought of being able to download BBC content to use on your OS of choice was starting to look very likely.
Then they suddenly became very friendly with Microsoft (not sure if it was connected with the change of management after Blair kicked the existing one out by saying bad things about Iraq or whether Bill came by with a sack of cash) - they developed iPlayer which was based on Windows Media Player, so now Linux and even Mac users were left out in the cold. In effect the BBC started discriminating against people unwilling or unable to pay the Microsoft Tax.
The BBC have lately promised to also make the content available on MacOS X eventually, but no dates have been fixed. In the end for it to work on the Mac they will have to offer their content either in an open DRM-free format or use Apples DRM. If they stick with the DRM route it will mean Linux and other OS users will be out of luck. FWIW (not a lot probably) here's a petition to make iPlayer cross platform (with a name like iSomething you'd expect it to work on a mac!).
I have several Firefox T-shirts (yeah, I know, I'm a geek). About half the time, when I walk into a store, an employee or another customer will see the shirt and make a positive comment about Firefox. So, anecdotally, there's a positive perception of the Firefox brand out there. I remember a time when Mosaic and then Netscape WERE synonymous with the Web. I suspect that time is long gone.
(It would be an interesting experiment walking around with an IE shirt. But I'm not brave enough to do it). I get a lot of people commenting on the Firefox t-shirt too, I normally wear the t-shirts when travelling and I've had positive comments from check-in staff, airport security staff, passengers and cabin crew.
Ah, Netscape. This takes me back to my youth and the early days of the web. Tables were simple, frames were unheard of, graphics were unanimated, CSS and dynamic html were just dreams, Ajax was a cleaning product, and we all used to hang our with Ritchie, Ralph, and the Fonz at Al's Diner. But Netscape were the inventors of frames (and of course the blink tag) and they're probably the first to introduce the animated gif to browsers. They also created JavaScript (originally called LiveScript IIRC).
I remember the excitement when Netscape 4.x was originally ported to Linux. The mainstream browser / email client / whatever (who cared about IE?) was now available for us.
The last place I worked which used it was in 2004 - maybe they still do - 'cos somehow their management thought anything from Mozilla was too experimental (and anything from Microsoft too insecure). I suppose this is for them.
The flame has been passed on. Netscape 4.x was available for Linux from the very beginning as well as on a host of other UNIX platforms. The number of platforms that Netscape supported in those days was very impressive. I think that's what scared Microsoft - if the web became the platform and Netscape remained the browser of choice it wouldn't matter if the user was running Windows, Mac, OS/2, Linux or a number of Unix variants.
When I started using Linux Netscape 3 was the current release and a Linux version was definitely available for it.
I like and use Firefox, but it seems awfully chummy with Google for my taste. I don't think it's the default, but Firefox 2.0 allows you to check with Google whether each site you visit is a "suspected forgery." Probably a sizable percentage of Firefox users takes Google up on its offer. I doubt that many people enable that feature, it's off by default (the standard phishing protection in firefox compares URL's with a list that's downloaded every 30 minutes). The people who are most likely to need phishing protection are those who are least likely to look in a settings dialog so therefore I can't imagine many will enable this check with google function.
Because first we want to let 95% of people to work with the keyboard.
Oh yeah? Well I wasn't gonna buy one anyway! I'm perfectly happy with my Model-M.
Although 95% of people may run Windows I seriously doubt 95% of their target market runs Windows so perhaps they should ask when pre-ordering what OS you plan to use it under and dedicate resources appropriately.
"$1,564.37" hahahaha... sorry.. i'm using my 7 Euro keyb... "$1,564.37" hahahaha... "$1,564.37" hahahaha... i'm so sorry.. but.. "$1,564.37" hahahaha... Stop bragging about your expensive keyboard. The way the dollar is going I'd suspect 7 euros is well over $2000 now:)
This has less details than the April 1st Zune 360 article. But instead a nice big Google adwords banner running down the right hand side of the page. As for someone writing an unoffical Zune fansite running into an MS employee by accident, how likely is that? It looks like astroturf to me.
Anyway the Zune 360 in the April fools post sounds a lot better than the Zune announced on Zune Scene.
There was no mention of DRM there whatsoever. AAC is an open format, it doesn't necessarily have Apple's proprietary DRM applied.
It sounds more like a convenience thing than anything else, they want to keep using iTunes and of course they don't want to have problems with it working with their mac. If they really wanted to they could switch away from iTunes and use another player without losing their music.
Yeah, I remember everything at one time was going to be branded.NET. Didn't MSN Messenger become.NET Messenger for a while and now is Windows Live Messenger (but most people still call it MSN). Eventually if Windows Live is a failure you can see that name quietly disappear too.
Microsoft seem king of the pick a lame name and promote it strategy. I think they'd have been better sticking with the established MSN and improving it beyond recognition.
It's definitely there in Firefox (the information bar that is, not the did you notice dialog). But it's easy to disable it. You can right click on it and ask for it to be never shown again.
If you never disabled it yourself, there's a few possibilities: If you're using a package from your distribution then they may have disabled these alerts for you. If you used Firefox in the pre 1.0 days (Phoenix, Firebird) you may have inherited a setting from one of the older versions.
I think the poster was actually commenting on this feature http://browserden.co.uk/news/a-week-with-ie7/using / (bottom of the page). Where IE shows you a dialog 'Did you notice the Information Bar' every time it shows an info bar until you turn it off. Of course turning this pop up off is easy, but it's typical of the MS shove everything in your face style.
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Seriously, what makes you think everything runs as root on the iPhone?
It has a sim card, but it's a weird one. No it's a standard SIM card. The phone is just locked so it can't accept other SIMs. Once you have your AT&T account setup you should be able to use your iPhone SIM is any unlocked GSM phone.
Why would Apple care if these devices aren't being subsidised, they still get their sale. If anyone is to sue it'd be AT&T.
On its own this development will only cater for those who are not interested in the phone component, but if he can find a way to unlock it then it'll be a lot more useful.
Oh, and what MS marketing droid came up with the term "squirt"? Seriously, how could some MS marketing drones think that people would "dig" the phrase, "squirt"? Hey babe, wacha listening to? Cool, could you "squirt" that to me?... Slap! "Squirt" a song and 3 days later the "squirt" is gone! "Squirt"... every time I think of that and the Zune I laugh.
Yo dog, what ya doin?.... Not much, just "squirting" with my boyz. I doubt any marketing person in MS decided on that term, the only person I've seen use it in an official context is Ballmer so I believe that term is definitely a monkeyboy invention.
I bet the marketing people were very embarassed by that moment, it even further reduced the little coolness factor that this device had.
Of course it's the Mail that'll be paying for the CD's to be produced in order to sell more papers.
Now, IE is the most obvious example, but I'm sure other people could find more. On the leisure market, people who invested in plays for sure music only to find that if they bought a zune it certainly wouldn't play.
Just look at the properties of any downloaded iTunes music file (at least on Mac OS X, not sure how Windows Explorer is useful in this regard) and it lists the purchase date along with the name of the person who purchased it.
This is the case for DRM and non-DRM'd files, it's not something Apple added when they scrapped the DRM it's just something they didn't take out.
As it's trivial to alter then it's no way of tracking users, it's just extra metadata.
Then they suddenly became very friendly with Microsoft (not sure if it was connected with the change of management after Blair kicked the existing one out by saying bad things about Iraq or whether Bill came by with a sack of cash) - they developed iPlayer which was based on Windows Media Player, so now Linux and even Mac users were left out in the cold. In effect the BBC started discriminating against people unwilling or unable to pay the Microsoft Tax.
The BBC have lately promised to also make the content available on MacOS X eventually, but no dates have been fixed. In the end for it to work on the Mac they will have to offer their content either in an open DRM-free format or use Apples DRM. If they stick with the DRM route it will mean Linux and other OS users will be out of luck. FWIW (not a lot probably) here's a petition to make iPlayer cross platform (with a name like iSomething you'd expect it to work on a mac!).
(It would be an interesting experiment walking around with an IE shirt. But I'm not brave enough to do it). I get a lot of people commenting on the Firefox t-shirt too, I normally wear the t-shirts when travelling and I've had positive comments from check-in staff, airport security staff, passengers and cabin crew.
The last place I worked which used it was in 2004 - maybe they still do - 'cos somehow their management thought anything from Mozilla was too experimental (and anything from Microsoft too insecure). I suppose this is for them.
The flame has been passed on. Netscape 4.x was available for Linux from the very beginning as well as on a host of other UNIX platforms. The number of platforms that Netscape supported in those days was very impressive. I think that's what scared Microsoft - if the web became the platform and Netscape remained the browser of choice it wouldn't matter if the user was running Windows, Mac, OS/2, Linux or a number of Unix variants.
When I started using Linux Netscape 3 was the current release and a Linux version was definitely available for it.
My (work) copy of XP doesn't have English English spelling and that's most definitely a legit copy purchased in the UK.
Nope. As they state in their just-released faq:
Why isn't there any Linux software?
Because first we want to let 95% of people to work with the keyboard.
Oh yeah? Well I wasn't gonna buy one anyway! I'm perfectly happy with my Model-M.
Although 95% of people may run Windows I seriously doubt 95% of their target market runs Windows so perhaps they should ask when pre-ordering what OS you plan to use it under and dedicate resources appropriately.sorry.. i'm using my 7 Euro keyb... "$1,564.37" hahahaha... "$1,564.37" hahahaha... i'm so sorry.. but.. "$1,564.37" hahahaha... Stop bragging about your expensive keyboard. The way the dollar is going I'd suspect 7 euros is well over $2000 now
This has less details than the April 1st Zune 360 article. But instead a nice big Google adwords banner running down the right hand side of the page. As for someone writing an unoffical Zune fansite running into an MS employee by accident, how likely is that? It looks like astroturf to me.
Anyway the Zune 360 in the April fools post sounds a lot better than the Zune announced on Zune Scene.
There was no mention of DRM there whatsoever. AAC is an open format, it doesn't necessarily have Apple's proprietary DRM applied.
It sounds more like a convenience thing than anything else, they want to keep using iTunes and of course they don't want to have problems with it working with their mac. If they really wanted to they could switch away from iTunes and use another player without losing their music.
For a while there were HP branded iPods, not any more though
So will the Zune 360 be subsidised too? :)
Is it really necessary to make the site completely useless one day of the year?
:)
What day in particular is that? I'd like to see them make the site completely useful for one day of the year
It'd be a start
Yeah, I remember everything at one time was going to be branded .NET. Didn't MSN Messenger become .NET Messenger for a while and now is Windows Live Messenger (but most people still call it MSN). Eventually if Windows Live is a failure you can see that name quietly disappear too.
Microsoft seem king of the pick a lame name and promote it strategy. I think they'd have been better sticking with the established MSN and improving it beyond recognition.
It's definitely there in Firefox (the information bar that is, not the did you notice dialog). But it's easy to disable it. You can right click on it and ask for it to be never shown again.
If you never disabled it yourself, there's a few possibilities:
If you're using a package from your distribution then they may have disabled these alerts for you.
If you used Firefox in the pre 1.0 days (Phoenix, Firebird) you may have inherited a setting from one of the older versions.
I think the poster was actually commenting on this feature http://browserden.co.uk/news/a-week-with-ie7/using / (bottom of the page). Where IE shows you a dialog 'Did you notice the Information Bar' every time it shows an info bar until you turn it off. Of course turning this pop up off is easy, but it's typical of the MS shove everything in your face style.
http://www.netscape.com/viewstory/2007/01/03/fire