Also considering the complaints Apple had been fielding awhile ago, Apple probably hired a lot more people for their review staff, and that increases the chances that your app will be reviewed by a more "lax" reviewer.
I don't think we'll be seeing it anytime soon, (wikileaks please?) but I'm sure Apple starts them out with a simple checklist of "absolutely not allowed" that if the app has any of that, it's rejected immediately. Beyond that, there's probably a second list of more subjective test, things like the baby shaker "in bad taste", profanity, pornography, etc. Anything borderline is bound to get rejected or approved depending on who reviews it, as long as there are some subjective criteria.
And there's always going to be an occasional "oops" of something getting approved that really should not have because it flagrantly violates one of the absolute rules.
Apple has a pretty simple way to fake more consistency in their approval process. When a dev submits an app, remember who the reviewer was. Now, any additional submissions by that dev will always be reviewed by that same reviewer. Resubmit it 10 times and you're probably going to get rejected every time, because it's the same reviewer.
I believe part of the reasoning here is they want to have 100% control over what goes on the ipod. (hence why the apps have to be approved) If your app downloads something that's beyond apple's control, that bypasses the approval process. Once your main app gets approved, it can download UNapproved material they don't want getting on the ipod. It's like restricting what apps a user can run on their computer, but let them run a shell. From there they can do whatever they want by way of the shell.
Sorry, but the trojan CANNOT create a hidden partition.
bzzt, wrong, incorrect!
Though I do give them kudos for it, live resizing is tricky. Still not convinced? OS X's boot camp prepares a mac for dual booting by live-resizing the booted hard drive, making space for, and setting up a 32gb windows partition. I'd be happy if they just made you boot off the restore CD to do that, but they actually pull it off WHILE booted off the hard drive they are resizing.
Depends on how you do the reinstall. Installers often have options for doing "quick formats" etc, and that can leave partition table information intact, they just wipe what they see as the prmary partition with a quick directory format. From time to time I've had to use the "nuclear" format option because a quick format didn't do the job. (corrupt partition table)
I was just going to suggest something like that but it would be a good idea to hit the end of the device also. Backup copies of partition information are sometimes kept there, and a well-meaning repair tool might "fix" those zeros for you.
If you think about it a bit, it's entirely possible to make the axel move too, since you have a stationary point relative to the rotation. (the bicycle frame) Imagine a raced mechanism at the hub, with an axel hole offset from its center. I'd have to think about it for a bit to see how it'd have to be constructed, but I'm confident it's possible. Should make for a smooth ride. There would be a lot of friction at that spot, you'd have to find a way to bearing it.
It'd almost be entertaining enough to just be riding down the road on that thing and see the looks you wold get, people trying to figure out why you're not rattling your fillings out with wheels like that. The handlebars would also have to be on a piston that would counter the motion as well.
The US govt bought some macbooks without cameras. I don't know if Apple removed them before selling to them, or if they had a 3rd party doing the removal process. What I DO know is they were manufactured with the cameras in them, and removed after production and packaging.
not that hard since it turns your skin bright banana yellow
Not trying to be racist, just making an observation, but I don't think that particular person's skin was going to turn "bright banana yellow". But if it did, then I'd agree it would tend to draw serious attention.
Why are they allowed to get all aspects of a court hearing "sealed"? This makes no sense, I realize they don't want the records made public, but why is the court going along with it?
We hand-cut cables that need to be over 50'. Anything under 50' we buy. Just not cost-effective, our techs can be spending their time on more cost-productive things. Having the reel onhand is only useful when cutting long runs or when you need to run through a spot you can't fit an end through.
That being said, if you can get your cables WHOLESALE, just buy a whole pile of them instead, long as well as short. The markup on cat6 is insane. (a $25 cable wholesales for around $4) If you have that, there's just no way you can have any reasonably paid tech cutting decent cables without losing money.
I've also noticed that lately the cost of copper has for some reason really jacked the price of a reel up. I remember getting 1500' for $68 retail. Now all the boxes have dropped to 1000' and are over $120. (in these parts anyway, again retail)
What I really hate is when the PHB buys the solid core cable and gets the ends for stranded...
One Indian gaming blog predicts Zeebo will struggle, in part due to the cultural reluctance toward digital distribution and also the lack of piratable games."
I've heard it speculated before that piracy in some circumstances encourages overall profit, is this a concrete example of said theory?
actually that would be interesting to see what percentage of screentime she got in the eps she was a primary in. Though I suspect they had many reasons for choosing STTOS to demo this. (1) geek attraction, (2) universally heard of, (3) probably most important: out of copyright. I'm sure the sharks were foaming at the mouth when they saw this. I'd love to see it on something more modern like voyager but that's not likely to happen for awhile.
I was just rewatching TNG and omigod barclay is all OVER that series.... he's often in good enough makeup and adjusting his voice so it's almost impossible to tell it's him until you see his mannerisms and then it's all over. Interesting how you can change your voice and your looks, but be so totally given-away by your mannerisms. But then he's a bit far out on the bell-curve there.
is the price of the iphone should drop because AT&T is paying more into the kickback fund at Cupertino.
I don't see this as a particularly bad thing, as long as AT&T doesn't hike their contract cost to offset it. Chip away some of that 26% and put it back in my pocket thx.
A single hulu show is roughly a gigabyte if you have the bandwidth. 44 hours a week is not unusual for television watching in some circles.
I was just thinking about that, 44 hrs/wk that's over 6 hrs a day 7 days a week, which does seem a bit extreme. But then I realized, that's if you're the only one in the house. How many houses have three televisions now? Imagine an entire family that uses hulu. Even three family members could easily average over 40 hrs combined video time a week if they preferred different shows, which is not at all uncommon.
You don't advertise an all-you-can-eat buffet, and then kick out a customer when they sit down and eat for three hours straight.
Metering use or at least advertising you have a bandwidth usage policy is better than just getting your line cut when they decide you've had enough for the month.
If that happens to me, *I* will be the one giving the lecture, and I will be receiving a credit for the time that my service was down, and I will be receiving additional credit for the inconvenience if they first sent me out to try new cable modems before actually telling me what happened. (though it sounds like in this case many of the reps there are not aware of the policies)
The reason we see them try to pull this BS (and frequently get away with it) is because customers let themselves get pushed around, walked all over, and generally taken advantage of.
They don't want to scare off new customers by advertising any limits, but at the same time they want to enforce limits. Can't have it both ways. Imagine going to a restaurant on a saturday all you can eat buffet to have a big breakfast with your family, and as you are parking you see the advert in the window for saturday morning all-you-can-eat, and notice the little note at the bottom, "(we will kick you out if you eat more than $20 worth of food)". Tell me YOU wouldn't find somewhere else to eat breakfast? So it's not surprising they don't want to disclose anything like that.
god this reminds me of a quote from a star trek movie...
McCoy: How much and how soon? Alien: How soon is now. How much is, where? McCoy: Somewhere in the Mutara sector. Alien: Oh, Mutara restricted! Take permits many; money more. McCoy: There aren't gonna be any damned permits! How can you get a permit to do a damned illegal thing? Look, price you name, money I got.
the quality of the cables definitely affects gigabit. I've seen cat5 (non e) make a computer or a switch refuse to go to gigabit speed. I've also been told that it can still show GB but run at sub-gb speeds if the cable is marginal. (faster than 100bt but slower than gb)
I've also heard from others that the speed of one port being sub-gb can cause other ports on a gb switch to slow down even though it's not common traffic. I don't know if I buy this or not - doesn't sound like a properly designed switch should have that problem.
I have 5(non-e) in my house and in some places I can get gb going. The kind of terminators and jacks (especially) makes a difference too. You have to maintain the twist as far into the connectors as possible to get full gb speeds.
I've also heard (again unsubstantiated) reports that certain models of switches/nics don't get along well at gb speeds and will not run at optimal speeds together. So you might want to try to stick with one brand at the location.
Reading the previous article, GameStop released the game early. So everyone that was chomping at the bit to get the game that didn't know it was available at gamestop, (or that had already put down money to preorder the game elsewhere) had an easy option to get on board early, pirate and play it while waiting for the game to come in at their local shop.
I'd do that too given the option. Not surprising in the least. They can't call this any kind of impartial representation of how piracy affects sales. In this respect, piracy does no more to hurt sales as does releasing a trailer. ("well, that had a lot of SUCK to it, good thing I didn't preorder")
1 issue: E-mail has a 10MiBi Limit. So this E-Mail you speak of cannot be used.
I'd like to point out that's your problem, it's far from a universal one.
My mailserver takes 50mb emails, mostly because several of one of my user's clients insist on continually emailing her 20-40mb emails of attached pictures for design specs. ("whats jpeg? our camera only makes tiff files, what's the problem? we can take our business elsewhere if you can't receive our emails?")
Talk with your ISP. The good ones can raise your mailbox and message limits.
Reminds me of a certain recent xkdc but I know there was one that hit closer to home. Something along the lines of, "Drat! He's running linux! foiled again!"
Most larger mailservers have a limit that only certain privileged accounts can TO: more than about 8 people at a time, and access to the large mailing list aliases (all-facstaff, seniors-list, all-students, etc) is similarly restricted. One would assume that was implemented after that allowed one user to bring your server to its knees?
I'm tired of people saying their apple runs just as good four years later. Its almost technically impossible.... If any Apple cultist says their machine runs just as well as it did four years after purchase OR touts how much they can resell it for, they're just as disillusioned as a MS apologist.
On a fairly regular basis, we get people in here with 5, 6, 8, even 10 year old macs, to have them repaired or upgraded. Compare that with how often we even see a windows box 6 or more years old that is still usable.
"You can't install the latest os. There's not enough HD space, you don't have enough memory, can't add any more memory, and it's dirt slow compared to today's machine. Time to buy a new one." "But why? This machine still works fine? It's not even seven years old yet!"
Yes we really do have to have that conversation with mac owners from time to time. We like to recommend they get a new machine very 5 years or so, just so upgrading their software isn't too difficult. This is a totally different mindset from windows users that have to get a new machine every 4 years to even have it still be functional.
As for resale value, we just got in a rush of used macs and sold them. They were anywhere from 2.5-4.5 yrs old, and sold from $800-$1450. I want to see you TRY to get $1400 for a 3 year old windows machine. I was surprised the powermac g5 went for under a grand. Macs certainly do retain their resale value. I upgrade much more frequently because my work requires a high end laptop. I have yet to sell one used for under $1300. We've had to stop accepting G4's (2001'ish) as they are starting to get difficult to sell.
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Also considering the complaints Apple had been fielding awhile ago, Apple probably hired a lot more people for their review staff, and that increases the chances that your app will be reviewed by a more "lax" reviewer.
I don't think we'll be seeing it anytime soon, (wikileaks please?) but I'm sure Apple starts them out with a simple checklist of "absolutely not allowed" that if the app has any of that, it's rejected immediately. Beyond that, there's probably a second list of more subjective test, things like the baby shaker "in bad taste", profanity, pornography, etc. Anything borderline is bound to get rejected or approved depending on who reviews it, as long as there are some subjective criteria.
And there's always going to be an occasional "oops" of something getting approved that really should not have because it flagrantly violates one of the absolute rules.
Apple has a pretty simple way to fake more consistency in their approval process. When a dev submits an app, remember who the reviewer was. Now, any additional submissions by that dev will always be reviewed by that same reviewer. Resubmit it 10 times and you're probably going to get rejected every time, because it's the same reviewer.
I believe part of the reasoning here is they want to have 100% control over what goes on the ipod. (hence why the apps have to be approved) If your app downloads something that's beyond apple's control, that bypasses the approval process. Once your main app gets approved, it can download UNapproved material they don't want getting on the ipod. It's like restricting what apps a user can run on their computer, but let them run a shell. From there they can do whatever they want by way of the shell.
Sorry, but the trojan CANNOT create a hidden partition.
bzzt, wrong, incorrect!
Though I do give them kudos for it, live resizing is tricky. Still not convinced? OS X's boot camp prepares a mac for dual booting by live-resizing the booted hard drive, making space for, and setting up a 32gb windows partition. I'd be happy if they just made you boot off the restore CD to do that, but they actually pull it off WHILE booted off the hard drive they are resizing.
Impressive, but not impossible.
Depends on how you do the reinstall. Installers often have options for doing "quick formats" etc, and that can leave partition table information intact, they just wipe what they see as the prmary partition with a quick directory format. From time to time I've had to use the "nuclear" format option because a quick format didn't do the job. (corrupt partition table)
I was just going to suggest something like that but it would be a good idea to hit the end of the device also. Backup copies of partition information are sometimes kept there, and a well-meaning repair tool might "fix" those zeros for you.
The caps and the burning circuit board do not meet mydefinition of bomb
You've obviously never had to "clean out the confetti" in a computer or power supply...
If you think about it a bit, it's entirely possible to make the axel move too, since you have a stationary point relative to the rotation. (the bicycle frame) Imagine a raced mechanism at the hub, with an axel hole offset from its center. I'd have to think about it for a bit to see how it'd have to be constructed, but I'm confident it's possible. Should make for a smooth ride. There would be a lot of friction at that spot, you'd have to find a way to bearing it.
It'd almost be entertaining enough to just be riding down the road on that thing and see the looks you wold get, people trying to figure out why you're not rattling your fillings out with wheels like that. The handlebars would also have to be on a piston that would counter the motion as well.
The US govt bought some macbooks without cameras. I don't know if Apple removed them before selling to them, or if they had a 3rd party doing the removal process. What I DO know is they were manufactured with the cameras in them, and removed after production and packaging.
not that hard since it turns your skin bright banana yellow
Not trying to be racist, just making an observation, but I don't think that particular person's skin was going to turn "bright banana yellow". But if it did, then I'd agree it would tend to draw serious attention.
Why are they allowed to get all aspects of a court hearing "sealed"? This makes no sense, I realize they don't want the records made public, but why is the court going along with it?
We hand-cut cables that need to be over 50'. Anything under 50' we buy. Just not cost-effective, our techs can be spending their time on more cost-productive things. Having the reel onhand is only useful when cutting long runs or when you need to run through a spot you can't fit an end through.
That being said, if you can get your cables WHOLESALE, just buy a whole pile of them instead, long as well as short. The markup on cat6 is insane. (a $25 cable wholesales for around $4) If you have that, there's just no way you can have any reasonably paid tech cutting decent cables without losing money.
I've also noticed that lately the cost of copper has for some reason really jacked the price of a reel up. I remember getting 1500' for $68 retail. Now all the boxes have dropped to 1000' and are over $120. (in these parts anyway, again retail)
What I really hate is when the PHB buys the solid core cable and gets the ends for stranded...
One Indian gaming blog predicts Zeebo will struggle, in part due to the cultural reluctance toward digital distribution and also the lack of piratable games."
I've heard it speculated before that piracy in some circumstances encourages overall profit, is this a concrete example of said theory?
actually that would be interesting to see what percentage of screentime she got in the eps she was a primary in. Though I suspect they had many reasons for choosing STTOS to demo this. (1) geek attraction, (2) universally heard of, (3) probably most important: out of copyright. I'm sure the sharks were foaming at the mouth when they saw this. I'd love to see it on something more modern like voyager but that's not likely to happen for awhile.
I was just rewatching TNG and omigod barclay is all OVER that series.... he's often in good enough makeup and adjusting his voice so it's almost impossible to tell it's him until you see his mannerisms and then it's all over. Interesting how you can change your voice and your looks, but be so totally given-away by your mannerisms. But then he's a bit far out on the bell-curve there.
is the price of the iphone should drop because AT&T is paying more into the kickback fund at Cupertino.
I don't see this as a particularly bad thing, as long as AT&T doesn't hike their contract cost to offset it. Chip away some of that 26% and put it back in my pocket thx.
A single hulu show is roughly a gigabyte if you have the bandwidth. 44 hours a week is not unusual for television watching in some circles.
I was just thinking about that, 44 hrs/wk that's over 6 hrs a day 7 days a week, which does seem a bit extreme. But then I realized, that's if you're the only one in the house. How many houses have three televisions now? Imagine an entire family that uses hulu. Even three family members could easily average over 40 hrs combined video time a week if they preferred different shows, which is not at all uncommon.
You don't advertise an all-you-can-eat buffet, and then kick out a customer when they sit down and eat for three hours straight.
Metering use or at least advertising you have a bandwidth usage policy is better than just getting your line cut when they decide you've had enough for the month.
If that happens to me, *I* will be the one giving the lecture, and I will be receiving a credit for the time that my service was down, and I will be receiving additional credit for the inconvenience if they first sent me out to try new cable modems before actually telling me what happened. (though it sounds like in this case many of the reps there are not aware of the policies)
The reason we see them try to pull this BS (and frequently get away with it) is because customers let themselves get pushed around, walked all over, and generally taken advantage of.
They don't want to scare off new customers by advertising any limits, but at the same time they want to enforce limits. Can't have it both ways. Imagine going to a restaurant on a saturday all you can eat buffet to have a big breakfast with your family, and as you are parking you see the advert in the window for saturday morning all-you-can-eat, and notice the little note at the bottom, "(we will kick you out if you eat more than $20 worth of food)". Tell me YOU wouldn't find somewhere else to eat breakfast? So it's not surprising they don't want to disclose anything like that.
god this reminds me of a quote from a star trek movie...
McCoy: How much and how soon?
Alien: How soon is now. How much is, where?
McCoy: Somewhere in the Mutara sector.
Alien: Oh, Mutara restricted! Take permits many; money more.
McCoy: There aren't gonna be any damned permits! How can you get a permit to do a damned illegal thing? Look, price you name, money I got.
the quality of the cables definitely affects gigabit. I've seen cat5 (non e) make a computer or a switch refuse to go to gigabit speed. I've also been told that it can still show GB but run at sub-gb speeds if the cable is marginal. (faster than 100bt but slower than gb)
I've also heard from others that the speed of one port being sub-gb can cause other ports on a gb switch to slow down even though it's not common traffic. I don't know if I buy this or not - doesn't sound like a properly designed switch should have that problem.
I have 5(non-e) in my house and in some places I can get gb going. The kind of terminators and jacks (especially) makes a difference too. You have to maintain the twist as far into the connectors as possible to get full gb speeds.
I've also heard (again unsubstantiated) reports that certain models of switches/nics don't get along well at gb speeds and will not run at optimal speeds together. So you might want to try to stick with one brand at the location.
Reading the previous article, GameStop released the game early. So everyone that was chomping at the bit to get the game that didn't know it was available at gamestop, (or that had already put down money to preorder the game elsewhere) had an easy option to get on board early, pirate and play it while waiting for the game to come in at their local shop.
I'd do that too given the option. Not surprising in the least. They can't call this any kind of impartial representation of how piracy affects sales. In this respect, piracy does no more to hurt sales as does releasing a trailer. ("well, that had a lot of SUCK to it, good thing I didn't preorder")
I see an import CD option... But no Import DVD option...
Learn to drive your iTunes. Use your Handbrake
1 issue: E-mail has a 10MiBi Limit. So this E-Mail you speak of cannot be used.
I'd like to point out that's your problem, it's far from a universal one.
My mailserver takes 50mb emails, mostly because several of one of my user's clients insist on continually emailing her 20-40mb emails of attached pictures for design specs. ("whats jpeg? our camera only makes tiff files, what's the problem? we can take our business elsewhere if you can't receive our emails?")
Talk with your ISP. The good ones can raise your mailbox and message limits.
Imagine if Microsoft.com were only _at all_ accessible from anything but IE?
Obviously you've never tried to download a windows update? "Windows Genuine Advantage" ring a bell?
Reminds me of a certain recent xkdc but I know there was one that hit closer to home. Something along the lines of, "Drat! He's running linux! foiled again!"
Most larger mailservers have a limit that only certain privileged accounts can TO: more than about 8 people at a time, and access to the large mailing list aliases (all-facstaff, seniors-list, all-students, etc) is similarly restricted. One would assume that was implemented after that allowed one user to bring your server to its knees?
I'm tired of people saying their apple runs just as good four years later. Its almost technically impossible. ...
If any Apple cultist says their machine runs just as well as it did four years after purchase OR touts how much they can resell it for, they're just as disillusioned as a MS apologist.
On a fairly regular basis, we get people in here with 5, 6, 8, even 10 year old macs, to have them repaired or upgraded. Compare that with how often we even see a windows box 6 or more years old that is still usable.
"You can't install the latest os. There's not enough HD space, you don't have enough memory, can't add any more memory, and it's dirt slow compared to today's machine. Time to buy a new one." "But why? This machine still works fine? It's not even seven years old yet!"
Yes we really do have to have that conversation with mac owners from time to time. We like to recommend they get a new machine very 5 years or so, just so upgrading their software isn't too difficult. This is a totally different mindset from windows users that have to get a new machine every 4 years to even have it still be functional.
As for resale value, we just got in a rush of used macs and sold them. They were anywhere from 2.5-4.5 yrs old, and sold from $800-$1450. I want to see you TRY to get $1400 for a 3 year old windows machine. I was surprised the powermac g5 went for under a grand. Macs certainly do retain their resale value. I upgrade much more frequently because my work requires a high end laptop. I have yet to sell one used for under $1300. We've had to stop accepting G4's (2001'ish) as they are starting to get difficult to sell.
Curious where you're getting your numbers from?