(This has got to be a dumb question, but once someone answers it, I think I'll start to understand how the Airport is special.)
Not dumb. You're assuming it's just some sort of wireless router or access point. It does more.
It has audio out and a USB connector. Audio out can be connected to speakers, so you can take music that you're listening to on your iPod and say, play this in the Living Room. The airport express in the living room can then start playing your audio to the hi-fi. I'm not sure if you can do it from the iPad, but paying from iTunes you should also be able to play multiroom audio if you have several Airport Express.
Similarly you can print to a printer attached by USB to an airport express.
This is wrong because your MAC address does not traverse the IP layer, i.e. only your ISP knows your MAC address.
Well, sort of. Your ISP knows it, as does your PC/phone. Most wireless routers broadcast a BSSID including the MAC address of the wireless access point. Your phone/computer etc can then see the MAC address of the device it's connected to as well as those of other networks in the vicinity.
You're correct this doesn't traverse the IP layer normally. However, google offer a geolocation API. In using this, a device can send a list of the wireless router MAC addresses visible to it in the vicinity. Google can then lock these up in their database of geolocated MAC addresses and use a form of triangulation to locate the user's position.
Yes of course, it's just another television set in that its purpose is consuming. You cannot truly use an iPad for production, i.e writing, video editing, programming, etc.
Do you have a basis for this? The original iPad was launched along with an iPad iWorks suite with word processor, spreadsheet and presentation software.
The iPad 2 was launched with iMovie and GarageBand. You have muti-track creation and editing of videos and music.
I have no doubt these are not up there with pro-level tools. Nonetheless, given the volume of sales, I believe there are a great many people using their iPads for content generation.
The trouble is that, for most folk, there's no ability to customize their phone. The only group benefiting are the handset manufacturers and network operators.
If they were not making phones with locked or difficult to upgrade firmware it might be different, but in actual fact they're trying to foist their changes upon users and are certainly not making it easy to revert to a vanilla Android install in the sense that you could reinstall your PC with Linux or Windows as soon as you get it home.
What "work" do you do on an Ipad? Watching movies on Itunes?
Spoken like someone that's never actually used an iPad.
I'm not Apple fanboy. The iPad was the first piece of Apple hardware I've owned. I purchased one because I could immediately see places I would use it.
Many many people these days work with portable environments, making limited data entry into web browsers. An iPad with its light weight and long battery life is ideal for those folk.
Downstream liability is something that far too few people are familiar and, particularly on a college campus, many times the desire to help out your friends by leaving your wireless wide open trumps common sense.
Isn't interesting that ISPs are excluded from downstream liability. Colleges appear to be mostly excluded from downstream liability. Yet if you run an open access point to freely share bandwidth you have paid for, you risk losing the shirt off your back in lawsuits.
As for me I plan to get insurance when I'm old (i.e. my body starts breaking down), but certainly not when I'm young and never get sick. That makes no sense. When I'm young paying ~$200 in cash for annual visits makes more sense then paying ~$5000 to the insurance megacorp.
What you really mean is if you get really sick - and young people can and do get really sick - you'll be uninsured and expect me, through my taxes and my insurance contributions to pick up your tab? Or do you have a six figure sum tucked away for medical emergencies?
The largest hospital near me is state owned. When an uninsured person turns up there, it is my taxes that help pay for it. At the other, private hospitals you are right, they have to eat that cost and consequently increase their charges resulting in higher insurance premiums, so I pay for those folk too.
2. SSL for virtual hosts is not supported by Internet Explorer (yet another problem with IE)
What do you mean? Recent versions certainly support it. Perhaps IE6 does not, however many sites have already stopped supporting it at the design level.
Subject says it all. It's expensive to get a signed SSL certificate.
You're kidding, right? You can pick up a single site SSL certificate for under $20 and a wildcard certificate for about $100. For all the other costs associated with running a website, the cost of an SSL certificate is negligible.
You don't need to be doing e-commerce to have data worth protecting. If nothing else, half your users probably use the same login and password for your site as they do for their email, their social networking and possibly their bank! Of course they shouldn't but they do. That data is valuable and worth spending a few dollars to protect.
Why would you believe your P2P software is less prone to vulnerabilities than BIND?
but it also permits the company to defacto limit the webservers that employees may visit.
Perhaps, If your company employs people who cannot type in an IP address. Nonetheless, I can think of many much better ways to limit employee internet access.
All software has vulnerabilities. If your nameserver has an issue, you upgrade BIND and you're done. If your P2P software on every desktop has a vulnerability, you now have to update software on every desktop. Assuming, that is, that the vulnerability is ever publicly disclosed.
Really? Then why is it that book purchases that I make through the Amazon app go into my shopping cart at Amazon, the same one as when I make a purchase via their web site? And if I purchase a book via the Kindle iPhone app, why does it still send me to Amazon's web site?
Because the rules are new and the app hasn't been updated or removed.
It's pretty clear that, unless Amazon have managed to negotiate individual rules (which would probably cause all sorts of regulatory issues) the app as it stands is not compliant with the new rules.
Yet the iPad experience is also woeful. App switching and the lack of multi-tasking is a woeful experience.. After ten minutes use the task bar of previously used apps is full and you're left scrolling to find the app you want.
Text entry is abysmal - where's the numeric row on the keyboard. If you can fit three rows on an iPhone, you can easily fit four rows on an iPad.
Mobile Safari is a poor excuse for a browser. No tabs, no ad blocking. No flash. Burrying your head in the sand and pretending it doesn't exist won't make it go away.
Apple's rules on apps mean there's no integrated groupware. Want to check your email and calendar first thing in the morning, you need to switch between two applications.
The iBooks app doesn't even let you organise your books onto separate shelves or into folders.
You're absolutely correct. No other tablet comes close. Yet. As the Android tablets mature, there are countless areas that they will be able to deliver a better end user experience than Apple's effort.
A magazine has much better control of their costs as they are typically being distributed by the publisher directly.
This move by Apple is intended to punish Apple's competitors, that's other distributors and in particular Amazon. There's no way Amazon can afford to give Apple a 30% cut of sales, since their margin is significantly lower than that.
Other subscription services could also suffer. Will this extend to Pandora/Spotify etc? Again there's no way they could afford to give apple 1/3 of their subscription fee as their margin is going to be lower than that.
Apple really want content producers to make direct deals with them, cutting out the middlemen that are making money on Apple's platform. Cutting competition lets them keep prices, margins and profits high.
Yes, when those post-docs lose their research funding they'll just keep researching in their garage at their own expense. There they will join the mass ranks of other volunteer scientists making new and groundbreaking discoveries every day.
We're talking about cutting well over $5 billion from science spending. Anyone that wants to pretend that won't destroy much of 'the media good science grows on' is delusional.
in this case it's not really a personal writing so much as a violation of the students right to privacy and a general violation of professional ethics.
Is there another article? I don't see any suggestion that she actually named any pupils. The video says they didn't see any individual students mentioned.
If their names were not released, in what way do you feel their privacy was violated?
Yes, 'quite easy'. Obvious problems though - you shouldn't need iTunes. It's a stupid interface for getting movies onto your device. Something like AirShare lets you drag and drop a movie on your desktop to the device, but of course the sandboxing means you can't get that movie into your iPad videos folder, you nee to watch it inside AirShare.
The iPad also has no inbuilt way to watch movies stored on NAS. There's a number of apps which try to offer DLNA support, but all the ones I've tried have been unstable.
It's not that the iPad isn't capable - look at the XBMC install for jailbroken iPads. It's just that Apple won't allow the capabilities to be exploited. They'd rather you just bought the movie again through iTunes and let them get their cut.
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A useful reminder that, despite what many hope, there's no B for Backup in RAID.
The video shows the tech unplugging and replugging RAM, so I'm assuming there was no need to seal peripherals that don't have moving parts.
That appears to be the case. You can remotely control iTunes from the iOS device, but not stream directly from it to multiple speakers.
Not dumb. You're assuming it's just some sort of wireless router or access point. It does more.
It has audio out and a USB connector. Audio out can be connected to speakers, so you can take music that you're listening to on your iPod and say, play this in the Living Room. The airport express in the living room can then start playing your audio to the hi-fi. I'm not sure if you can do it from the iPad, but paying from iTunes you should also be able to play multiroom audio if you have several Airport Express.
Similarly you can print to a printer attached by USB to an airport express.
Well, sort of. Your ISP knows it, as does your PC/phone. Most wireless routers broadcast a BSSID including the MAC address of the wireless access point. Your phone/computer etc can then see the MAC address of the device it's connected to as well as those of other networks in the vicinity.
You're correct this doesn't traverse the IP layer normally. However, google offer a geolocation API. In using this, a device can send a list of the wireless router MAC addresses visible to it in the vicinity. Google can then lock these up in their database of geolocated MAC addresses and use a form of triangulation to locate the user's position.
Do you have a basis for this? The original iPad was launched along with an iPad iWorks suite with word processor, spreadsheet and presentation software.
The iPad 2 was launched with iMovie and GarageBand. You have muti-track creation and editing of videos and music.
I have no doubt these are not up there with pro-level tools. Nonetheless, given the volume of sales, I believe there are a great many people using their iPads for content generation.
The trouble is that, for most folk, there's no ability to customize their phone. The only group benefiting are the handset manufacturers and network operators.
If they were not making phones with locked or difficult to upgrade firmware it might be different, but in actual fact they're trying to foist their changes upon users and are certainly not making it easy to revert to a vanilla Android install in the sense that you could reinstall your PC with Linux or Windows as soon as you get it home.
So you're saying that you once met someone who used the inappropriate tool for a job. Therefore that tool is inappropriate for any job.
You might need a class in logic.
If you're in a fixed position, obviously a keyboard makes sense. For $50 you can even get one for the iPad.
If, however, you are moving around all day - think doctors, salespeople and such like, then a more portable device has a lot to offer.
Spoken like someone that's never actually used an iPad.
I'm not Apple fanboy. The iPad was the first piece of Apple hardware I've owned. I purchased one because I could immediately see places I would use it.
Many many people these days work with portable environments, making limited data entry into web browsers. An iPad with its light weight and long battery life is ideal for those folk.
Isn't interesting that ISPs are excluded from downstream liability. Colleges appear to be mostly excluded from downstream liability. Yet if you run an open access point to freely share bandwidth you have paid for, you risk losing the shirt off your back in lawsuits.
Why do you say that? IE9 was released to the public on 14th March. I don't see anything at http://microsoft.com/ie/ or http://www.beautyoftheweb.com suggesting it is anything other than a final release.
What you really mean is if you get really sick - and young people can and do get really sick - you'll be uninsured and expect me, through my taxes and my insurance contributions to pick up your tab? Or do you have a six figure sum tucked away for medical emergencies?
The largest hospital near me is state owned. When an uninsured person turns up there, it is my taxes that help pay for it. At the other, private hospitals you are right, they have to eat that cost and consequently increase their charges resulting in higher insurance premiums, so I pay for those folk too.
SSL virtualhosting is neither new, nor uncommon. Both apache and modern browsers support it just fine.
What do you mean? Recent versions certainly support it. Perhaps IE6 does not, however many sites have already stopped supporting it at the design level.
You're kidding, right? You can pick up a single site SSL certificate for under $20 and a wildcard certificate for about $100. For all the other costs associated with running a website, the cost of an SSL certificate is negligible.
You don't need to be doing e-commerce to have data worth protecting. If nothing else, half your users probably use the same login and password for your site as they do for their email, their social networking and possibly their bank! Of course they shouldn't but they do. That data is valuable and worth spending a few dollars to protect.
Seriously? What companies avoid nameservers?
Why would you believe your P2P software is less prone to vulnerabilities than BIND?
Perhaps, If your company employs people who cannot type in an IP address. Nonetheless, I can think of many much better ways to limit employee internet access.
All software has vulnerabilities. If your nameserver has an issue, you upgrade BIND and you're done. If your P2P software on every desktop has a vulnerability, you now have to update software on every desktop. Assuming, that is, that the vulnerability is ever publicly disclosed.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=apple+subscription+rules+June&l=1
And the rules apply from June. Your point is?
Because the rules are new and the app hasn't been updated or removed.
It's pretty clear that, unless Amazon have managed to negotiate individual rules (which would probably cause all sorts of regulatory issues) the app as it stands is not compliant with the new rules.
Yet the iPad experience is also woeful. App switching and the lack of multi-tasking is a woeful experience.. After ten minutes use the task bar of previously used apps is full and you're left scrolling to find the app you want.
Text entry is abysmal - where's the numeric row on the keyboard. If you can fit three rows on an iPhone, you can easily fit four rows on an iPad.
Mobile Safari is a poor excuse for a browser. No tabs, no ad blocking. No flash. Burrying your head in the sand and pretending it doesn't exist won't make it go away.
Apple's rules on apps mean there's no integrated groupware. Want to check your email and calendar first thing in the morning, you need to switch between two applications.
The iBooks app doesn't even let you organise your books onto separate shelves or into folders.
You're absolutely correct. No other tablet comes close. Yet. As the Android tablets mature, there are countless areas that they will be able to deliver a better end user experience than Apple's effort.
A magazine has much better control of their costs as they are typically being distributed by the publisher directly.
This move by Apple is intended to punish Apple's competitors, that's other distributors and in particular Amazon. There's no way Amazon can afford to give Apple a 30% cut of sales, since their margin is significantly lower than that.
Other subscription services could also suffer. Will this extend to Pandora/Spotify etc? Again there's no way they could afford to give apple 1/3 of their subscription fee as their margin is going to be lower than that.
Apple really want content producers to make direct deals with them, cutting out the middlemen that are making money on Apple's platform. Cutting competition lets them keep prices, margins and profits high.
Yes, when those post-docs lose their research funding they'll just keep researching in their garage at their own expense. There they will join the mass ranks of other volunteer scientists making new and groundbreaking discoveries every day.
We're talking about cutting well over $5 billion from science spending. Anyone that wants to pretend that won't destroy much of 'the media good science grows on' is delusional.
Is there another article? I don't see any suggestion that she actually named any pupils. The video says they didn't see any individual students mentioned.
If their names were not released, in what way do you feel their privacy was violated?
Yes, 'quite easy'. Obvious problems though - you shouldn't need iTunes. It's a stupid interface for getting movies onto your device. Something like AirShare lets you drag and drop a movie on your desktop to the device, but of course the sandboxing means you can't get that movie into your iPad videos folder, you nee to watch it inside AirShare.
The iPad also has no inbuilt way to watch movies stored on NAS. There's a number of apps which try to offer DLNA support, but all the ones I've tried have been unstable.
It's not that the iPad isn't capable - look at the XBMC install for jailbroken iPads. It's just that Apple won't allow the capabilities to be exploited. They'd rather you just bought the movie again through iTunes and let them get their cut.