Something tells me they could have made an early offer that both parties would have been happy with - I mean, dude could make millions just by luck of naming something with a letter. Google's problem is, Giersch already is a millionaire and wanted to keep his toy project with the name he chose.
I just tried sending myself (from Yahoo Mail account) to example@googlemail.com instead of example@gmail.com (sorry for the spamming, Mr. Example) and it worked perfectly. Nevertheless, the reply was indeed sent using the example@gmail.com address.
So I guess switching to the name googlemail would not be that difficult. For extra points, I mailed me at myname@gmail.com instead of my.name@googlemail.com - that also worked. Note the missing "." in the address.
Good point. the only problem then is where do you get an iPhone without actually signing yourself up for the contract. At an Apple store. You don't sign any contract there. You only chose your contract when you activate the phone at home via iTunes (where you "sign" it with your SSN and CC info). Or you use the hack - in which case you don't have contract.
Sorry, I know Woz is a geek god and all that, but I still don't see why he should be let off this one. If you don't think DRM "makes sense", why on earth have you bought so much DRM-d content and so little DRM-free content?
Maybe because he buys music he likes instead of buying music that sucks but doesn't come with DRM just to make a point.
Ummm, no. It couldn't go any further because several journalist's refused to reveal their sources. The actual source of the information (Valerie Plame's identity) was disclosed by a party unknown to Libby. You mean Libby doesn't know Turd Blossom?
The next interesting question is, if you're technically guilty but not really because you were pardoned, what implications does it have in issues where your status as a criminal might not have legal implications but definitely has practical ones (e.g. getting a security clearance)? Not surprisingly, it looks like there are a lot of interesting legal opinions on this one. It looks like the prevailing wisdom is, "You got caught being bad and everybody knows it. Suck it up." The real question is: can he still vote in Florida - and how many votes does he get?
The FSF has not made any accusations... merely speculated on the impact of GPL3 on future locked-down devices. I don't think Apple is in violation of any licenses, GPL or LGPL. The issue is about intent and posturing - the FSF has gained publicity by seemingly aligning itself with a commercially successful product - the iPhone. By stating that it is a crippled device, they have said it is anti-GPL in spirit.
Smart way for the FSF to get mindshare in the marketplace, is the way I see it. How is it smart for the main proponents of GPL3 to admit what others (like Linus Torvalds) have already said: that GPL3 is a bad idea and nobody is going to use it?
Context is everything, and unfortunately, TFA doesn't provide a great deal, but most likely Brown was responding to statements like this from Steve Jobs;
"You don't want your phone to be an open platform," meaning that anyone can write applications for it and potentially gum up the provider's network, says Jobs. "You need it to work when you need it to work. Cingular doesn't want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up." Jobs' statement is FUD and needs to be challenged. By unrelated FUD? Yeah, that's what we expect from the FSF. They have become the Greenpeace of Free Software.
This is a pedant's argument, reliant on some literal interpretation of the structure of MS's website. The name they chose suggests that the "x64 Edition" is a variant of XP. Just like "Windows XP Tablet PC Edition" is a variant of Windows XP that is also not mentioned on the iPhone system requirements.
from what i know, the ones who are blowing up trucks in front of mosques are not american, but ARABS WHO ARE BEING PAID BY IRAN. IOW you know Jack Shit.
You miss my point. Utterly. No, I don't want to go packing around a USB or firewire HDD along with my laptop.
Why, I ask? Because you miss my point? Read up what target disk mode is.
The official name of the 64 bit product is Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.
That name is not listed on the iPhone page, don't expect it to be supported. At my most charitable I'd consider that downright pedantic, though more likely it's simply false. Are you honestly claiming that "Windows XP Professional x64 Edition" isn't being sold as a particular version of "Windows XP Professsional"?
You can argue the toss about the actual code base, but if it's being sold as XP Professsional, that's all that is relevant. I guess you'd use the same argument against any product being sold as "Windows XP comptatible" that didn't work with 32-bit Home or Pro because, hey, they're sold as "Windows XP Home" (etc.) not "Windows XP". Well, what do you see when you visit the Windows XP Home Page? Yup , you see a list of "Windows XP Editions":
Home Edition
Professional Edition
Media Center Edition
Tablet PC Edition
Professional x64 Edition
Did you notice something? Now go click the link to "Professional Edition" - do you see a mention of the 64 bit version there?
With IBM/Lenovo and Dell laptops (and probably many others), the drive can be accessed with one or two screws and they slide out of the chassis, even on their smallest+thinnest models.
This is particularly useful when "recycling" a laptop that's being replaced. I get a new laptop every 2-3 years to get the latest features and performance stuff, and when I do, I pull the HDD out of the old laptop and set it aside, as a "just in case" if I discover some important data that I forgot.
Using Dell laptops at our company, this is a VERY painless process - it takes seconds to pull the old HDD, stick in the new one, and start loading Windows. Why wouldn't Apple do this? Because Macs had target disk mode for ages?
(Yes, I know you can manage Apples remotely through many tools, but none of them can be used without first personally visiting the Mac in question. You'd better turn on ssh and set a known account/password, or install a management tool before you hand that machine over to a user.) IOW enterprises use Windows because it's easy to root.
It really ought to be be illegal in all Geek Jurisdictions to publish this sort of thing without a corresponding set of pictures detailing the reassembly (to as-new condition). If you are geeky enough to disassemble something even though you have images showing you how it looks inside, you better be geeky enough to re-assemble it yourself without a step-by-step guide.
Of course, it does require a special chip on a motherboard made specifically by Apple to boot up or install. How is that not DRM? You mean the chip that isn't found in the latest Macs? The one that keeps those Macs from running Mac OS X, and that is never accessed by Mac OS X?
Unintential stuff from his review caught on the WSJ video:
1) Smudges are definitely visible on the iPhone screen. See at location - unfortunately, we would need to read stuff on that same screen. Location 4:38 So wait for the version where smudges are invisible. Hey, smudges are invisible on all other phones, right?
2) He mentions that on third day he was going to chuck it out the window because of the keyboard. Then, on the 5th day, it worked as good as his Treo. Ah, it's great being a reviewer...because normal people would have likely returned it on Day 3. Or maybe thrown it out the window, in which case Day 5 maybe would involve convincing the Apple Store person that this occurred during "normal usage" of the iPhone. Or maybe he wanted to throw his Treo out the Window on day 3 to because of the keyboard.
3) He seems to indicate that the coolest features of the phone (Internet browsing on a "real browser", email, etc.) require high-speed Internet, but the phone itself has no high-speed capabilities, and apparently is not upgradeable at all. Errm, no, he says that the network was slow, not the iPhone. But appart from that, keep up the good work.
Hah, that was funny. Or it would have been if it weren't boring and wrong. Of course you can show images on the iPhone directly on the TV, that's one of the things the iPod docking connector is for.
No right to refuse post-conviction tests
By WILLIAM S. SESSIONS
When I became director of the FBI in 1987, the forensic use of DNA to find and convict wrongdoers was just emerging as a tool in criminal investigations and trials. This "genetic fingerprinting" provided an entirely new capability in the effort to separate the guilty from the innocent.
In early 1988, the FBI Laboratory Division created a DNA testing lab; by year's end, testing was completed in 100 active cases. I fully expected the results to confirm the careful investigative and evaluative work that had gone into the decisions to prosecute these suspects.
Instead, I was stunned: In about 30 percent of the cases, DNA gathered in the investigation did not match the suspect's DNA.
Fifteen years later, this rate remains virtually the same. Approximately 25 percent of DNA tests do not produce a match. I'm proud that throughout its existence, the FBI's DNA lab has served both to identify criminals and to exonerate suspects mistakenly identified by law enforcement investigations nationwide. But with 137 post-conviction DNA exonerations now on the books, I'm increasingly concerned about recent news stories suggesting a growing resistance by prosecutors to allow post-conviction DNA testing, even in cases when there is strong evidence of innocence.
Don't fucking tell me the US criminal justice system is fucked up, and that those 25% somehow shrink to zero for people executed.
To find scientific proof they need scientific evidence - but the evidence has been tempered with. And all the people who got out of death row after years because they were proven innocent didn't give the anti death penalty movement much more support either. Americans just don't care as long as they feel safe.
The iPod has come a long way in audio quality since gen 1, but its relatively decent 83dB S/N ratio (shown here) gets flat-out whupped by the plainly excellent 98 dB S/N ratio of the Zen Xtra (here). So you compare a measured SNR for the iPod with the SNR quoted from the makers website and don't even get suspicious when the other products from the same maker all lay at least 15dB below - esp. when they give the same >95dB on their website? Also note how the Creatives stink in distortion (next page of first link)?
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It's a *TOOL* - It does *NOT* need to be ... ergonomic.
Errm. Whatever.Considering there is no way in hell the battery is replaceable, that's pretty cheap.
So I guess switching to the name googlemail would not be that difficult.
For extra points, I mailed me at myname@gmail.com instead of my.name@googlemail.com - that also worked. Note the missing "." in the address.
Sorry, I know Woz is a geek god and all that, but I still don't see why he should be let off this one. If you don't think DRM "makes sense", why on earth have you bought so much DRM-d content and so little DRM-free content?
Maybe because he buys music he likes instead of buying music that sucks but doesn't come with DRM just to make a point.You mean Libby doesn't know Turd Blossom?
Smart way for the FSF to get mindshare in the marketplace, is the way I see it. How is it smart for the main proponents of GPL3 to admit what others (like Linus Torvalds) have already said: that GPL3 is a bad idea and nobody is going to use it?
Yes, it is. Fortunately.
Context is everything, and unfortunately, TFA doesn't provide a great deal, but most likely Brown was responding to statements like this from Steve Jobs;
"You don't want your phone to be an open platform," meaning that anyone can write applications for it and potentially gum up the provider's network, says Jobs. "You need it to work when you need it to work. Cingular doesn't want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up." Jobs' statement is FUD and needs to be challenged. By unrelated FUD? Yeah, that's what we expect from the FSF. They have become the Greenpeace of Free Software.You miss my point. Utterly. No, I don't want to go packing around a USB or firewire HDD along with my laptop. Why, I ask? Because you miss my point? Read up what target disk mode is.
You can argue the toss about the actual code base, but if it's being sold as XP Professsional, that's all that is relevant. I guess you'd use the same argument against any product being sold as "Windows XP comptatible" that didn't work with 32-bit Home or Pro because, hey, they're sold as "Windows XP Home" (etc.) not "Windows XP". Well, what do you see when you visit the Windows XP Home Page? Yup , you see a list of "Windows XP Editions":
Home Edition
Professional Edition
Media Center Edition
Tablet PC Edition
Professional x64 Edition
Did you notice something? Now go click the link to "Professional Edition" - do you see a mention of the 64 bit version there?
IOW: blame Microsoft.
This is particularly useful when "recycling" a laptop that's being replaced. I get a new laptop every 2-3 years to get the latest features and performance stuff, and when I do, I pull the HDD out of the old laptop and set it aside, as a "just in case" if I discover some important data that I forgot.
Using Dell laptops at our company, this is a VERY painless process - it takes seconds to pull the old HDD, stick in the new one, and start loading Windows. Why wouldn't Apple do this? Because Macs had target disk mode for ages?
If you are geeky enough to disassemble something even though you have images showing you how it looks inside, you better be geeky enough to re-assemble it yourself without a step-by-step guide.
1) Smudges are definitely visible on the iPhone screen. See at location - unfortunately, we would need to read stuff on that same screen. Location 4:38
So wait for the version where smudges are invisible. Hey, smudges are invisible on all other phones, right? 2) He mentions that on third day he was going to chuck it out the window because of the keyboard. Then, on the 5th day, it worked as good as his Treo. Ah, it's great being a reviewer...because normal people would have likely returned it on Day 3. Or maybe thrown it out the window, in which case Day 5 maybe would involve convincing the Apple Store person that this occurred during "normal usage" of the iPhone.
Or maybe he wanted to throw his Treo out the Window on day 3 to because of the keyboard. 3) He seems to indicate that the coolest features of the phone (Internet browsing on a "real browser", email, etc.) require high-speed Internet, but the phone itself has no high-speed capabilities, and apparently is not upgradeable at all. Errm, no, he says that the network was slow, not the iPhone. But appart from that, keep up the good work.
Hah, that was funny. Or it would have been if it weren't boring and wrong. Of course you can show images on the iPhone directly on the TV, that's one of the things the iPod docking connector is for.
To find scientific proof they need scientific evidence - but the evidence has been tempered with. And all the people who got out of death row after years because they were proven innocent didn't give the anti death penalty movement much more support either. Americans just don't care as long as they feel safe.
So you compare a measured SNR for the iPod with the SNR quoted from the makers website and don't even get suspicious when the other products from the same maker all lay at least 15dB below - esp. when they give the same >95dB on their website? Also note how the Creatives stink in distortion (next page of first link)?