If you're happy with AT&T, then more power to you. But take a second look if your last experience with them was a decade ago. You might be surprised. And no, I don't work for them. Just a happy customer.
I don't think T-Mobile was a contender around me 10 years ago... I think the closest was VoiceStream which got bought out by T-Mobile in 2001.
Still, I've talked to some people in the area and they admit that T-Mobile stinks by us. Then again I know some people a few towns over that swear by it, but they never come to our town.
Where I live Verizon has the best coverage, but I'd rather go with a service that uses SIM cards for the convenience. AT&T's coverage is quite good by me and like I said, only 1 big problem in 10 years is pretty good in my book.
I should also mention that I always pick up after my dog and think it's the polite thing to do, let alone the legal thing. And I would get annoyed if a neighbor's dog kept pooping on our lawn or whatever though I'd be civil about it.
I should also mention that nearby we had a group of elderly gentlemen that tried to privately ban dogs from a public area even though it was legally allowed to have them there so long as we picked up after them. They tried to put up their own signs and hastle dog walkers. Said gentlemen didn't even live that close to the area, while I lived less than 100 meters away, they just used the public park-like space for their octogenarian Soccer.
RE: people not scooping after their pets - demand higher fines. As a dog owner, I would welcome a fine of $3,000 plus temporary confiscation of the dog, along with boarding fees for one month for people who don't poop-and-scoop. Offer the dog up for adoption, and if someone else adopts the dog during that month, too bad, sucks 2 be U, maybe you'll pick up next time.
But how do you enforce it and/or prove the culprit?
I was walking my dog last year and we passed by a huge turd. The thing had obviously been out for quite a while since it was already drying. My dog sniffed it for a sec and kept on going, I didn't break a stride so it was obviously to anyone watching that it wasn't us; no time to even squat let alone do the deed.
We got a house further and a woman started yelling at us, I don't mean mild annoyance I mean YELLING like I'd just toilet-papered her house. She was DEMANDING I pick it up and went ape for about 30 seconds, I think even going so far as threatening to call the cops. My politely trying to tell her it wasn't ours went unheard.
Finally I just said f--- it and yelled back a bit that I wasn't touching another dog's mess and maybe she should pay more attention since it was obviously no longer fresh. She kept flipping out and calling me a liar but I didn't have the patience to put up with her.I
Under your proposed guidelines that busy-body might've had my dog taken away for a few days and cost me an arm and a leg.
I say, unless caught on tape or the accuser wants to go through the trouble of some sort of DNA test then it shouldn't be something so HUGE.
At the very least T-Mobile is cheaper, though I don't know about Verizon + Sprint.
T-Mobile's coverage by me stinks, otherwise I would've gotten a Google Android phone from them around the time Apple released the iPhone 3GS.
So far I'm not having many problems with AT&T, save for a week about a year ago when a cell tower near me was misconfigured and not allowing incoming calls to any cellphone. But almost 10 years without any real issues is pretty good.
There's a bunch of countries out there where if you get admitted into a university, the government picks up the tuition bill, period. Those countries ain't richer than the USA.
True
But my understanding is a) said countries typically only have a handful of universities b) getting into them is often incredibly hard
Is the above better or worse than the US method?
I am not qualified to answer.
For the US: On one hand choice is good as you have more schools to choose from. On the other you have the market saturated with people that coasted through their degrees and didn't pick up the necessary skills.
If you don't program in your spare time, you either:...3 negative responses...
It's also worth noting that everyone who says they don't program at home does horribly on the rest of the interview, without fail, while most people who say they do program at home wind up doing quite well.
You see, that seems a little closed-minded. If you already have the experience and necessary skillset then the most that should matter is if you're willing and able to learn more, on the side if necessary. But if I'm applying to a job, it's going to be in something that I know well enough to do professionally.
The question is a poor one, it's a weak and cheap blanket question to determine if a person is willing to expand their knowledge. I doubt many parents have a lot of free time to program their own projects.
When I was younger I used to program a fair amount on the side, usually to either make a small utility or as a training-app to learn a new language, library, or method. It was never anything professional or submitted to an Open Source project but little things.
You ask me that question now, and without thinking about it I might say "no, I don't program on the side." In my mind I'd be quietly thinking "I have a small enough personal life as it is and I hope my X years of professional experience and skillset Y speak for themselves."
However if I had a chance to think about it, which I would do before an actual interview, I could honestly say yes (just not a lot). I try to keep current with different languages and technologies so on occasion I'll crack open a book or visit a site and learn how to do X, and in the process I'll always be doing a little minor coding. It's a lot less than I used to, but I still try to keep on top of things.
You need to keep current, else perish. Doctors and Mechanics have to get trained from time to time in new procedures and equipment, and programmers need to make sure they are up to speed.
I'm reasonably certain it's been shown a number of times that if you build a PC with the exact same hardware as a Mac, you'll end up with a PC that costs about the same.
The same? No. There is a markup.
However when Apple releases a new model with a new CPU/GPU/TechonologyX the markup isn't bad at all.
The problem is, the Apple stays around that price for a long time while Dell has reduced its prices and moved onto a slightly faster CPU in the same time frame. Minor speed bump here, better GPU there, price depreciation on their older stuff, etc.
Given enough time the Apple price is then viewed as ridiculous as Apple releases their products at a snail's pace compared to other companies,
Blame fan support for Danial Jacksons repeated reincarnations, if I remember correctly they originally didn't plan to bring him back after his first "death" but a large percentage of fans kinda freaked out.
Define "first death."
He died a number of times (and/or was thought dead by the main characters) a number of times before the death that made the SG-1 fanbase freak out in Season 5.
The Wikipedia entry doesn't actually list all of them.
One of my biggest gripes with the final series of SG-1 (and most of Atlantis) was the reliance on Deus Ex Machina to save the day (Especially in the closing episode of Atlantis) and the constant ressurection of characters through various means, Dr Beckett's clone, Dr Wier's seemingly endless robot clones and Daniel Jackson's repeated Ascensions/Falls.
One of my favorites lines from SG-1 was in Season 7.
Scientist: Dr Jackson is going to die when he sees this. Soldier: What!? Again?
Counting the movie, and not counting the Virtual Reality where either he or an NPC was killed a LOT, he's probably "died" (or been presumed dead) at least 8 times.
Dr Beckett's return was worthy of an eye-roll, and was almost not worth it since he was only in a handful of episodes after his return.
Weir, eh sort of. She's no Dr Jackson but she did come back 3 or 4 times thanks to replicator nanites.
O'Neill had a few deaths plus the repeated resurrections at the hands of Ba'al but it was known to the viewer ahead of time he was going to be put through the rinse cycle a few times for torture's sake.
Personally for reviews I like to find the ones reporting problems or other low-scoring responses.
Great, 80% of the owners on the forum LOVE this car and think it's god's gift. Good for you.
I want to read from that other 20% where people are talking about rattling, quirks, and bad experiences.
Those 80% are usually from Joe Sixpack applauding the number of cup holders and the glovebox, or couldn't tell a quality DLP tv from a 10-year-old analog projector TV.
I like to get some of the good reviews too, and sometimes a bad review is just the writer's bias showing, but I find it informative.
Also, there is at least one episode I can recall where a Jaffa retreating through a gate has his staff weapon cut in half when the gate shuts off. Also in the 2nd episode of the entire series of SG-1, Kawalsky had his head cut in half by them shutting down the gate while his head was partially in the wormhole. So the whole thing about transporting entire objects as one packet seems to be not true all of the time.
Their treatment of the event horizon varied according to plotm but...
They *attempted* to address this in an episode of Atlantis.
1/4 of a Puddle Jumper (shuttlecraft) made it through the gate in outer space before it got stuck as its engines were partially deployed before entering. And the gate wouldn't "transmit" until the whole ship entered.
Rodney said that if left as-is, when the wormhole deactivated the front-part would remain in the buffer so technically the whole crew would go into the event horizon and wait for help much like what happened Teal'C in an episode of SG-1. Meanwhile the rest of the ship would be cut in half (or 3/4) and would vent atmostphere.
HOWEVER, the instant someone dialed that gate the buffer would clear and they would be lost / deleted. Since (at that point) they didn't have an FTL ships on-hand the crew would be SOL since they had no way of getting to them. So they couldn't even send the crew in there as stasis since they could never reach them without gating them.
In the end, they managed to retract the engines and open the rear hatch so the atmosphere blast would scoot the shuttle completely through the gate so it could transmit.
I wonder if it would be possibly to do a new show post B5, maybe set 100 years later or something.
They tried at two spin-offs.
One was Crusade which took place either a couple of years after the final season or concurrently with the final season. It was alright but got messed around by the network and was cancelled after 1-2 seasons.
The other was Legend of the Rangers. I believe this took place further down the line after Crusade, as GKar was done with his walk-about from the series finale and his telepath companion had left him. However this attempt only made it so far as a pilot TV movie. It wasn't bad and attempted to bring in a new race of antagonists whose followers believed they were were "somehow" older than the Vorlons and Shadows.
And yet the Woolworths apple logo looks absolutely nothing like the Apple Computer logo. Nice.
There is a similarity in an abstract kind of way, but nothing that blatant.
But even so, the most you can say is it looks like a flippin' piece-of-fruit apple. That's the problem when you base your logo on such a common item. I'm sure many fruit vendors and such have similar logos since, you know, an apple makes sense.
Now if the "offender" was a computer company or perhaps an online music store then I could see them raising a fuss but that's not the case here.
The phone network could be used to flag drivers who talk while driving. The law would have to be pretty aggressive and creative though.
Not really: who's to say it wasn't a passenger using the phone or whether it was a bus/train versus a car.
Then you have the fact that it's often legal to talk with a hands free system, which they can't distinguish. In my state it's a ticket-able offense to use a cellphone while driving without some sort of hands-free: speaker phone, BT headset, BT stereo, etc.
Personally I try to never use the phone while driving. I have OnStar with some prepaid minutes so the only button I need to press is on my rear-view mirror. And even then the only phone call I'll make is asking whether I need to pick up groceries or let my boss know I'm going to be a little late. Short 20 second conversations that require very little thought or back-and-forth. If the person on the other line tries to start up a conversations I tell them I'll call back.
I don't think either party was the hero in this battle, but Palm deserved what it got.
Apple provides legitimate methods to connect a device to iTunes via a public API and/or Toolkit. This lets them support things easier by making sure the public API works after changes.
I see it as less "anti-competitive business practice" and "we want to stop the ball rolling on companies tricking iTunes so support doesn't become a problem."
Look at it this hypothetical scenario which is NOT the case here but goes to the overall problem.
- Lets say ALL of the device companies out there decided to skip the API and do what Palm did: trick it.
- Apple legitimately wants to change something on their end with the way iTunes interfaces with iPod/iPhone. Do something neat / tricky to add a feature or improve performance that they KNOW works on the iPod/iPhone.
- But now they have to worry about breaking every other device out there because the hardware and capabilities are different.
- So now you have to wonder "is this REALLY an iPhone?"
* If only there was some way to know for sure which device this was?
* Oh wait! THAT's what Vendor ID is for.
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This is the sole point of the public API and/or Toolkit. You state funcX() returns Y. Maybe one day you want to add funcZ() or replace funcX() with funcX21() . Maybe you eventually upgrade the API / Toolkit so the client code needs to be changed but it's on the other companies to stay current, not you supporting other companies' devices.
More seriously, what does nationality have to do with privacy issues? You think that maybe a Ugandan needs more privacy than a Russian?
From what I've learned from colleges, Europe has very strict privacy laws, especially with electronic information when compared to the US. What are departments allowed to see, store, etc. And failure to comply usually means all heck breaking loose.
Every IMPORTANT service I've used (read: bill pay, bank, credit card, credit reporting, etc) do not send me my password in the email.
The worst case I usually for my important sites is they send me a temporary password that forcefully requires I change it upon logging in the first time.
Other websites like forums, free news sites, download sites, etc might send me my old password or a reset password. But I'd be less concerned about those.
That's not to say this isn't a big security issue in its own right. But the hard-core access is minor.
Face it, schools using your SSN as your ID number on every page of paper is probably a bigger concern.
You can turn off the black outlining in the advanced graphics options. I think it looks really good with outlining off.
I had to
At least at release, my machine was CRAWLING with those enabled. I'm not whining about 20fps, but under 10fps... single-digits. It was stutter city, and I was getting annoyed at the game as a Core2Duo w/ nVidia 8600M + 3GB Ram isn't exactly weak and well-enough above the min requirements.
But once I turned off the outlining and shadows I'm around where I'd expect to be in an MMOG with its requirements -- smooth save for the occasional lag or insane screens (w/ tons of players spamming their powers).
If I get a new rig I'd liketo see how the game looks (in motion) with all of that enabled. On one hand I enjoy the screen with all of that enabled, it looks a lot like CoH. On the other, I wonder what I'm missing.
Yeah because Apples pro-unlock stance is so much metter, and touchscreens are a proven method of reliable input. At least with the G1 you get buttons and touchscreen if your ball stops working.
No, but if it's on AT&T then I don't really need to migrate it to another network (which I would need to do w/ a G1).
AT&T by me is quite good, but T-Mobile is horrid.
If there was a good AT&T Google-based phone at the time I needed one I would've probaby gone with that.
Disclaimer, I have an Android phone, and an iPod Touch (iPhone without a phone) and am looking for a sufficiently deep hole in which to cast my old WM phone. So I'm not a complete fanboi.
I was close to getting an Android phone. But then I realized the T-Mobile service around me stunk, and didn't like that idea.
Then I considered getting one unlocked (either through Google Developer or after a few months on T-Mobile) but learned that Google locked out the copyrighted apps from their store. Wasn't a major fan of that, though it didn't 100% stop me.
The final straw was the scrollball. I had one on a Blackberry Pearl that cr@pped out and it drove me nuts. I figured it was just bad luck.
But then the trackball on a floor model at a T-Mobile store was also screwed up.
So between T-Mobile, Google's anti-unlocked stance, and the scrollball I decided to ignore it for now. It may sound petty, but the 3 things combined were enough to get me to stop.
Other than that, nice phone. In the end though I went iPhone.
Yeah, I agree. The developer is a grade-A moron. Initially, the App was rejected because of this and after lots of back and forth Apple approved it with a condition of removing the BASIC interpreter. Developer thought it would be cute to hide, and make it available as an easter egg. Guess that plan backfired.
Without a doubt, they needlessly burned a lot of money because of lost potential sales. Apple might even return the favor by dragging its feet and not approving the app for weeks or months.
I agree. I also think it's funny that the grandparent anonymous coward got labeled a troll for saying something similar to you, only with less eloquence.
While it's possible he thought the feature was truly gone and locked away, my guess is he was trying to be cute and leave it there as an Easter Egg.
It stinks on a few levels.
On one hand Apple's policies are draconian. Rejecting things left and right, some of which really should be released. It would be one thing if the Apple store was only a possible venue to get apps (like how I can get music from anywhere for my iPod) but being the only game in town AND locking everything out is annoying.
On the other hand I can see some of what Apple is trying to do. It's a private market so free speech doesn't apply: they can prohibit "Adult" content and stupid apps if they want, on top of things that might violate the security of the device. Trojans, malware, viruses, etc. The store is their sandbox and they can do what they want... but having only 1 sandbox is restrictive.
Back to the original topic, they guy shot himself in the foot. He probably tried to be cute and is now probably on Apple's blacklist, meaning his apps will probably get accepted at an even slower rate (if ever).
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If you're happy with AT&T, then more power to you. But take a second look if your last experience with them was a decade ago. You might be surprised. And no, I don't work for them. Just a happy customer.
I don't think T-Mobile was a contender around me 10 years ago... I think the closest was VoiceStream which got bought out by T-Mobile in 2001.
Still, I've talked to some people in the area and they admit that T-Mobile stinks by us. Then again I know some people a few towns over that swear by it, but they never come to our town.
Where I live Verizon has the best coverage, but I'd rather go with a service that uses SIM cards for the convenience. AT&T's coverage is quite good by me and like I said, only 1 big problem in 10 years is pretty good in my book.
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I should also mention that I always pick up after my dog and think it's the polite thing to do, let alone the legal thing. And I would get annoyed if a neighbor's dog kept pooping on our lawn or whatever though I'd be civil about it.
I should also mention that nearby we had a group of elderly gentlemen that tried to privately ban dogs from a public area even though it was legally allowed to have them there so long as we picked up after them. They tried to put up their own signs and hastle dog walkers. Said gentlemen didn't even live that close to the area, while I lived less than 100 meters away, they just used the public park-like space for their octogenarian Soccer.
Some people just can't be reasoned with.
RE: people not scooping after their pets - demand higher fines. As a dog owner, I would welcome a fine of $3,000 plus temporary confiscation of the dog, along with boarding fees for one month for people who don't poop-and-scoop. Offer the dog up for adoption, and if someone else adopts the dog during that month, too bad, sucks 2 be U, maybe you'll pick up next time.
But how do you enforce it and/or prove the culprit?
I was walking my dog last year and we passed by a huge turd. The thing had obviously been out for quite a while since it was already drying. My dog sniffed it for a sec and kept on going, I didn't break a stride so it was obviously to anyone watching that it wasn't us; no time to even squat let alone do the deed.
We got a house further and a woman started yelling at us, I don't mean mild annoyance I mean YELLING like I'd just toilet-papered her house. She was DEMANDING I pick it up and went ape for about 30 seconds, I think even going so far as threatening to call the cops. My politely trying to tell her it wasn't ours went unheard.
Finally I just said f--- it and yelled back a bit that I wasn't touching another dog's mess and maybe she should pay more attention since it was obviously no longer fresh. She kept flipping out and calling me a liar but I didn't have the patience to put up with her.I
Under your proposed guidelines that busy-body might've had my dog taken away for a few days and cost me an arm and a leg.
I say, unless caught on tape or the accuser wants to go through the trouble of some sort of DNA test then it shouldn't be something so HUGE.
In terms of price?
Nope.
At the very least T-Mobile is cheaper, though I don't know about Verizon + Sprint.
T-Mobile's coverage by me stinks, otherwise I would've gotten a Google Android phone from them around the time Apple released the iPhone 3GS.
So far I'm not having many problems with AT&T, save for a week about a year ago when a cell tower near me was misconfigured and not allowing incoming calls to any cellphone. But almost 10 years without any real issues is pretty good.
There's a bunch of countries out there where if you get admitted into a university, the government picks up the tuition bill, period. Those countries ain't richer than the USA.
True
But my understanding is
a) said countries typically only have a handful of universities
b) getting into them is often incredibly hard
Is the above better or worse than the US method?
I am not qualified to answer.
For the US:
On one hand choice is good as you have more schools to choose from.
On the other you have the market saturated with people that coasted through their degrees and didn't pick up the necessary skills.
If you don't program in your spare time, you either: ...3 negative responses...
It's also worth noting that everyone who says they don't program at home does horribly on the rest of the interview, without fail, while most people who say they do program at home wind up doing quite well.
You see, that seems a little closed-minded. If you already have the experience and necessary skillset then the most that should matter is if you're willing and able to learn more, on the side if necessary. But if I'm applying to a job, it's going to be in something that I know well enough to do professionally.
The question is a poor one, it's a weak and cheap blanket question to determine if a person is willing to expand their knowledge. I doubt many parents have a lot of free time to program their own projects.
When I was younger I used to program a fair amount on the side, usually to either make a small utility or as a training-app to learn a new language, library, or method. It was never anything professional or submitted to an Open Source project but little things.
You ask me that question now, and without thinking about it I might say "no, I don't program on the side." In my mind I'd be quietly thinking "I have a small enough personal life as it is and I hope my X years of professional experience and skillset Y speak for themselves."
However if I had a chance to think about it, which I would do before an actual interview, I could honestly say yes (just not a lot). I try to keep current with different languages and technologies so on occasion I'll crack open a book or visit a site and learn how to do X, and in the process I'll always be doing a little minor coding. It's a lot less than I used to, but I still try to keep on top of things.
You need to keep current, else perish. Doctors and Mechanics have to get trained from time to time in new procedures and equipment, and programmers need to make sure they are up to speed.
I know this is modded funny, but I have to say that is one of the best analogies I've ever read.
Nah, it would've been better if he worked a car in there somehow. All good analogies need to boil down to cars :-) /sarcasm
I agree, a very good analogy.
The same? No. There is a markup.
However when Apple releases a new model with a new CPU/GPU/TechonologyX the markup isn't bad at all.
The problem is, the Apple stays around that price for a long time while Dell has reduced its prices and moved onto a slightly faster CPU in the same time frame. Minor speed bump here, better GPU there, price depreciation on their older stuff, etc.
Given enough time the Apple price is then viewed as ridiculous as Apple releases their products at a snail's pace compared to other companies,
Blame fan support for Danial Jacksons repeated reincarnations, if I remember correctly they originally didn't plan to bring him back after his first "death" but a large percentage of fans kinda freaked out.
Define "first death."
He died a number of times (and/or was thought dead by the main characters) a number of times before the death that made the SG-1 fanbase freak out in Season 5.
The Wikipedia entry doesn't actually list all of them.
One of my favorites lines from SG-1 was in Season 7.
Scientist: Dr Jackson is going to die when he sees this.
Soldier: What!? Again?
Counting the movie, and not counting the Virtual Reality where either he or an NPC was killed a LOT, he's probably "died" (or been presumed dead) at least 8 times.
Dr Beckett's return was worthy of an eye-roll, and was almost not worth it since he was only in a handful of episodes after his return.
Weir, eh sort of. She's no Dr Jackson but she did come back 3 or 4 times thanks to replicator nanites.
O'Neill had a few deaths plus the repeated resurrections at the hands of Ba'al but it was known to the viewer ahead of time he was going to be put through the rinse cycle a few times for torture's sake.
Tilc also evolved into a very interesting character.
Indeed.
(a joke, if you're a fan of the show)
Personally for reviews I like to find the ones reporting problems or other low-scoring responses.
Great, 80% of the owners on the forum LOVE this car and think it's god's gift. Good for you.
I want to read from that other 20% where people are talking about rattling, quirks, and bad experiences.
Those 80% are usually from Joe Sixpack applauding the number of cup holders and the glovebox, or couldn't tell a quality DLP tv from a 10-year-old analog projector TV.
I like to get some of the good reviews too, and sometimes a bad review is just the writer's bias showing, but I find it informative.
Also, there is at least one episode I can recall where a Jaffa retreating through a gate has his staff weapon cut in half when the gate shuts off. Also in the 2nd episode of the entire series of SG-1, Kawalsky had his head cut in half by them shutting down the gate while his head was partially in the wormhole. So the whole thing about transporting entire objects as one packet seems to be not true all of the time.
Their treatment of the event horizon varied according to plotm but...
They *attempted* to address this in an episode of Atlantis.
1/4 of a Puddle Jumper (shuttlecraft) made it through the gate in outer space before it got stuck as its engines were partially deployed before entering. And the gate wouldn't "transmit" until the whole ship entered.
Rodney said that if left as-is, when the wormhole deactivated the front-part would remain in the buffer so technically the whole crew would go into the event horizon and wait for help much like what happened Teal'C in an episode of SG-1. Meanwhile the rest of the ship would be cut in half (or 3/4) and would vent atmostphere.
HOWEVER, the instant someone dialed that gate the buffer would clear and they would be lost / deleted. Since (at that point) they didn't have an FTL ships on-hand the crew would be SOL since they had no way of getting to them. So they couldn't even send the crew in there as stasis since they could never reach them without gating them.
In the end, they managed to retract the engines and open the rear hatch so the atmosphere blast would scoot the shuttle completely through the gate so it could transmit.
I wonder if it would be possibly to do a new show post B5, maybe set 100 years later or something.
They tried at two spin-offs.
One was Crusade which took place either a couple of years after the final season or concurrently with the final season. It was alright but got messed around by the network and was cancelled after 1-2 seasons.
The other was Legend of the Rangers. I believe this took place further down the line after Crusade, as GKar was done with his walk-about from the series finale and his telepath companion had left him. However this attempt only made it so far as a pilot TV movie. It wasn't bad and attempted to bring in a new race of antagonists whose followers believed they were were "somehow" older than the Vorlons and Shadows.
And yet the Woolworths apple logo looks absolutely nothing like the Apple Computer logo. Nice.
There is a similarity in an abstract kind of way, but nothing that blatant.
But even so, the most you can say is it looks like a flippin' piece-of-fruit apple. That's the problem when you base your logo on such a common item. I'm sure many fruit vendors and such have similar logos since, you know, an apple makes sense.
Now if the "offender" was a computer company or perhaps an online music store then I could see them raising a fuss but that's not the case here.
The phone network could be used to flag drivers who talk while driving. The law would have to be pretty aggressive and creative though.
Not really: who's to say it wasn't a passenger using the phone or whether it was a bus/train versus a car.
Then you have the fact that it's often legal to talk with a hands free system, which they can't distinguish. In my state it's a ticket-able offense to use a cellphone while driving without some sort of hands-free: speaker phone, BT headset, BT stereo, etc.
Personally I try to never use the phone while driving. I have OnStar with some prepaid minutes so the only button I need to press is on my rear-view mirror. And even then the only phone call I'll make is asking whether I need to pick up groceries or let my boss know I'm going to be a little late. Short 20 second conversations that require very little thought or back-and-forth. If the person on the other line tries to start up a conversations I tell them I'll call back.
I don't think either party was the hero in this battle, but Palm deserved what it got.
Apple provides legitimate methods to connect a device to iTunes via a public API and/or Toolkit. This lets them support things easier by making sure the public API works after changes.
I see it as less "anti-competitive business practice" and "we want to stop the ball rolling on companies tricking iTunes so support doesn't become a problem."
Look at it this hypothetical scenario which is NOT the case here but goes to the overall problem.
- Lets say ALL of the device companies out there decided to skip the API and do what Palm did: trick it.
- Apple legitimately wants to change something on their end with the way iTunes interfaces with iPod/iPhone.
Do something neat / tricky to add a feature or improve performance that they KNOW works on the iPod/iPhone.
- But now they have to worry about breaking every other device out there because the hardware and capabilities are different.
- So now you have to wonder "is this REALLY an iPhone?"
* If only there was some way to know for sure which device this was?
* Oh wait! THAT's what Vendor ID is for.
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This is the sole point of the public API and/or Toolkit. You state funcX() returns Y. Maybe one day you want to add funcZ() or replace funcX() with funcX21() . Maybe you eventually upgrade the API / Toolkit so the client code needs to be changed but it's on the other companies to stay current, not you supporting other companies' devices.
More seriously, what does nationality have to do with privacy issues? You think that maybe a Ugandan needs more privacy than a Russian?
From what I've learned from colleges, Europe has very strict privacy laws, especially with electronic information when compared to the US. What are departments allowed to see, store, etc. And failure to comply usually means all heck breaking loose.
Every IMPORTANT service I've used (read: bill pay, bank, credit card, credit reporting, etc) do not send me my password in the email.
The worst case I usually for my important sites is they send me a temporary password that forcefully requires I change it upon logging in the first time.
Other websites like forums, free news sites, download sites, etc might send me my old password or a reset password. But I'd be less concerned about those.
That's not to say this isn't a big security issue in its own right. But the hard-core access is minor.
Face it, schools using your SSN as your ID number on every page of paper is probably a bigger concern.
You can turn off the black outlining in the advanced graphics options. I think it looks really good with outlining off.
I had to
At least at release, my machine was CRAWLING with those enabled. I'm not whining about 20fps, but under 10fps... single-digits. It was stutter city, and I was getting annoyed at the game as a Core2Duo w/ nVidia 8600M + 3GB Ram isn't exactly weak and well-enough above the min requirements.
But once I turned off the outlining and shadows I'm around where I'd expect to be in an MMOG with its requirements -- smooth save for the occasional lag or insane screens (w/ tons of players spamming their powers).
If I get a new rig I'd liketo see how the game looks (in motion) with all of that enabled. On one hand I enjoy the screen with all of that enabled, it looks a lot like CoH. On the other, I wonder what I'm missing.
GameCube or Dreamcast? I loved the Dreamcast version (the 1st one was bad) but the only Sonic game I player on the Cube was... weird.
I think that was a joke.
Sonic Adventure 2 was viewed as less fun than the original by many, and the GameCube's version of 2 suffered poor sales.
But I could be wrong.
Yeah because Apples pro-unlock stance is so much metter, and touchscreens are a proven method of reliable input. At least with the G1 you get buttons and touchscreen if your ball stops working.
No, but if it's on AT&T then I don't really need to migrate it to another network (which I would need to do w/ a G1).
AT&T by me is quite good, but T-Mobile is horrid.
If there was a good AT&T Google-based phone at the time I needed one I would've probaby gone with that.
Disclaimer, I have an Android phone, and an iPod Touch (iPhone without a phone) and am looking for a sufficiently deep hole in which to cast my old WM phone. So I'm not a complete fanboi.
I was close to getting an Android phone. But then I realized the T-Mobile service around me stunk, and didn't like that idea.
Then I considered getting one unlocked (either through Google Developer or after a few months on T-Mobile) but learned that Google locked out the copyrighted apps from their store. Wasn't a major fan of that, though it didn't 100% stop me.
The final straw was the scrollball. I had one on a Blackberry Pearl that cr@pped out and it drove me nuts. I figured it was just bad luck.
But then the trackball on a floor model at a T-Mobile store was also screwed up.
So between T-Mobile, Google's anti-unlocked stance, and the scrollball I decided to ignore it for now. It may sound petty, but the 3 things combined were enough to get me to stop.
Other than that, nice phone. In the end though I went iPhone.
Maybe the next time around.
Yeah, I agree. The developer is a grade-A moron. Initially, the App was rejected because of this and after lots of back and forth Apple approved it with a condition of removing the BASIC interpreter. Developer thought it would be cute to hide, and make it available as an easter egg. Guess that plan backfired.
Without a doubt, they needlessly burned a lot of money because of lost potential sales. Apple might even return the favor by dragging its feet and not approving the app for weeks or months.
I agree. I also think it's funny that the grandparent anonymous coward got labeled a troll for saying something similar to you, only with less eloquence.
While it's possible he thought the feature was truly gone and locked away, my guess is he was trying to be cute and leave it there as an Easter Egg.
It stinks on a few levels.
On one hand Apple's policies are draconian. Rejecting things left and right, some of which really should be released. It would be one thing if the Apple store was only a possible venue to get apps (like how I can get music from anywhere for my iPod) but being the only game in town AND locking everything out is annoying.
On the other hand I can see some of what Apple is trying to do. It's a private market so free speech doesn't apply: they can prohibit "Adult" content and stupid apps if they want, on top of things that might violate the security of the device. Trojans, malware, viruses, etc. The store is their sandbox and they can do what they want... but having only 1 sandbox is restrictive.
Back to the original topic, they guy shot himself in the foot. He probably tried to be cute and is now probably on Apple's blacklist, meaning his apps will probably get accepted at an even slower rate (if ever).
Plus, correct me if I'm wrong, with most Modern Windows machines don't you have to explicitly Enable Remote Access?
If they're not savvy enough to use a password, I doubt many would turn it on.