While I have no doubt these machines are the bane of our personal freedom, and may even be dangerous its also possible that cancer clusters show up randomly. They do in areas near cellphone towers, unrelated to radiation, simply because clusters happen randomly too.
Interesting - whole system runs on RHEL (told you it was evil..) and multiple Squid processes.
Adds some latency into browsing (obviously...)
Old system dropped javascript tags into URLs but later version did not (resulting in some users having some javascript appearing in their forum posts - like that guy on the motorbike phorum if anyone remembers that incident)
Apple.com among the 'download target' sites (page 49) but surprisingly due to Evil, not Microsoft or Google.
It's really quite simple - violent people like violent video games. This does not mean that games make people violent.
Think of it this way - there is a stereotype that coders drink a lot of coffee. This does not mean that drinking coffee is going to make you into a coder.
Actually, the phone works just fine w/o 3G I'd be quite concerned if it didn't actually. Bit expensive for a phone though - they give away handsets if you just want to talk on the phone.
Then, there's WiFi when you're at your home, office, friends' places or congenial coffee shop. Damn sight better'n 3G. All the data you want. psst - other mobiles have WiFi too you know. The point however is all the bandwidth in the world is utterly useless if the device in question can't talk the protocols you require, such as to use a VPN for example.
And even when you rely on EDGE, it works just great for SMS, maps, weather and other nibbles of the 'net. Even email, as long as you don't expect it'll be faster than Blackberry, the supposed one to beat. ....and in say, Europe where 3G is everywhere and EDGE is relatively rare? Take the UK for example - O2 only has 30% EDGE coverage. That means that for example, if I had an iPhone and needed to use Google Maps and I was not in a major city, then I would be doing that over GSM while all around me others would be using 3G.
So the quote suggests you've never actually USED one for non-toy use and been frustrated. iPhones function VERY well within the design parameters, better than many browsers, for example, on nominally faster nets. Difficult to USE something to do something it CANNOT do.
And in answer to your comment title:
IF IT'S FINISHED WHY ARE THEY RELEASING VERSION 2.0?
It appears the iPhone is almost ready for serious use - add 3G and they have a serious tool rather than just an unfinished toy which is all it's been up to now.
The word 'monkey' is often used to describe someone of basic or lacking knowledge (like most first line support). The fact the OP mentioned India was, IMO, unrelated and simply a reference to outsourcing rather than a slight at specifically Indian support personnel. Certainly in Britain it is not a racist term at all, but rather a slight at someone's intelligence.
The thing that bugs me most about Apple are the fanboys. You know the type - they will argue about how much better PPC is than Intel, then when Apple switch to Intel, they suddenly flip to why Intel is so much better than PPC.
Then we have why you don't need apps or copy / paste on the iPhone, until Apple announce an SDK then it's all SDK this and SDK that.
What piss me off is people disbelieving in God's existence just because they can't scientifically prove it. And what 'piss me off' is people demanding proof 'god' doesn't exist yet believing in god's existence with no evidence whatsoever.
Yes but if you control the kindernet, you could introduce concepts such as sex in a tasteful, sensible & perhaps even educational fashion. After all, they wont know any different.
2. Slashdot keeps you logged in if you close the browser and restart it.. is that a bad design? Slashdot also has a logout link, but most importantly the last time I checked Slashdot wasn't sold as a service where you could securely keep your most personal files in a remotely accessible disk.
The worst thing that could happen if someone got into a/. account would be the burning of karma.
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OS X...because making UNIX friendly was easier than fixing Windows. Your sig makes no sense whatsoever. I think it should be something more along the lines of maybe 'OSX - because OS9 was a pile of crap and Apple needed a good solid foundation for a new OS.'
Your sig as it stands makes it sound like Apple would base an OS on Windows for some reason, which is obviously ridiculous, or that maybe there is a single entity producing operating systems rather than different companies with competing products.
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While I have no doubt these machines are the bane of our personal freedom, and may even be dangerous its also possible that cancer clusters show up randomly. They do in areas near cellphone towers, unrelated to radiation, simply because clusters happen randomly too.
Nice try, TSA.
Interesting - whole system runs on RHEL (told you it was evil..) and multiple Squid processes. Adds some latency into browsing (obviously...) Old system dropped javascript tags into URLs but later version did not (resulting in some users having some javascript appearing in their forum posts - like that guy on the motorbike phorum if anyone remembers that incident) Apple.com among the 'download target' sites (page 49) but surprisingly due to Evil, not Microsoft or Google.
...or browsers that have anti-phishing protection turned on?
Anti-phishing protection in Firefox basically reports every site you access to google. No Thanks.
It's really quite simple - violent people like violent video games. This does not mean that games make people violent.
Think of it this way - there is a stereotype that coders drink a lot of coffee. This does not mean that drinking coffee is going to make you into a coder.
Then, there's WiFi when you're at your home, office, friends' places or congenial coffee shop. Damn sight better'n 3G. All the data you want. psst - other mobiles have WiFi too you know. The point however is all the bandwidth in the world is utterly useless if the device in question can't talk the protocols you require, such as to use a VPN for example.
And even when you rely on EDGE, it works just great for SMS, maps, weather and other nibbles of the 'net. Even email, as long as you don't expect it'll be faster than Blackberry, the supposed one to beat.
So the quote suggests you've never actually USED one for non-toy use and been frustrated. iPhones function VERY well within the design parameters, better than many browsers, for example, on nominally faster nets. Difficult to USE something to do something it CANNOT do.
And in answer to your comment title:
IF IT'S FINISHED WHY ARE THEY RELEASING VERSION 2.0?
Actually I was thinking that they have almost caught up to the HTC TyTn (II) running Windows Mobile.
It appears the iPhone is almost ready for serious use - add 3G and they have a serious tool rather than just an unfinished toy which is all it's been up to now.
Get TomTom on that and I'm there.
The word 'monkey' is often used to describe someone of basic or lacking knowledge (like most first line support). The fact the OP mentioned India was, IMO, unrelated and simply a reference to outsourcing rather than a slight at specifically Indian support personnel. Certainly in Britain it is not a racist term at all, but rather a slight at someone's intelligence.
The thing that bugs me most about Apple are the fanboys. You know the type - they will argue about how much better PPC is than Intel, then when Apple switch to Intel, they suddenly flip to why Intel is so much better than PPC.
Then we have why you don't need apps or copy / paste on the iPhone, until Apple announce an SDK then it's all SDK this and SDK that.
People who believe in the god haven't even got a proper hypothesis yet.
I'd sell the US off and give the money to the shareholders.
Swapping and sharing of. Stop it.
Clairvoyant? Or just a typo?
Yes but if you control the kindernet, you could introduce concepts such as sex in a tasteful, sensible & perhaps even educational fashion. After all, they wont know any different.
Ban children from the Internets. By all means build a kindernet and police an regulate it to fuck, but leave the adult net alone.
The worst thing that could happen if someone got into a
Eve now has a Linux client.
RTFA - it's not live until Tuesday 6th when they patch the servers.
OS X...because making UNIX friendly was easier than fixing Windows. Your sig makes no sense whatsoever. I think it should be something more along the lines of maybe 'OSX - because OS9 was a pile of crap and Apple needed a good solid foundation for a new OS.'
Your sig as it stands makes it sound like Apple would base an OS on Windows for some reason, which is obviously ridiculous, or that maybe there is a single entity producing operating systems rather than different companies with competing products.
I wouldn't recommend using rsync to backup anything important on OSX...
Hint: Resource Forks.
Anyone know where his grave is? I'd like to go and dance on it.