Seriously, with the specs you're asking for, that's not going to cost any less than $1000. Can't be any larger than an iPhone, but somehow manage to have an 8hr batt with wifi and BT? I don't think you understand how these devices are made.
Uh, it's been only a little over 1 year since Episode 1 came out, and Episode 2 comes out in under 2 weeks.
Episode 2 was promised to us on a much more aggressive schedule, but if you've played TF2 you can see the amount of care they've put into it. Well worth the wait IMO, even if the TF2 wait was agonizing.
There's no vendor lock with AAC either. It's an open industry standard, where open does not mean 'free' in this instance. The Microsoft Zune supports AAC too, among others.
This is a ban on Internet SERVICE taxes, not state sales taxes. This would prevent a collection of sales and other taxes on your monthly ISP bill, such as what occurs with your cell phone and usual cable bill.
This is a *really* bad submission. It's wrong on so many fronts.
As others have pointed out, there's nothing innately wrong with using Google for antiphishing. They have a large userbase, and can easily detect a mass of users flocking to a really sketchy site. Would it be a huge deal if they plugged into PhishTank?
The submission does reflect this, but the feature isn't on by default. Instead, Firefox appears to use a static master black list that it redownloads periodically.
I can't trigger it now, but I'm pretty sure that you're asked to confirm when you select Google that you're aware of the URL sending and other various privacy implications. The user will not be uninformed when they make this choice
The feature is already present in Firefox 2. It is not new to Firefox 3. It's been well publicized before, and there haven't been any major problems since.
This is a pretty stupid low to go for some anti-Google hits.
This is a good point actually. Armchair economist-type people were wondering why Apple didn't charge more at launch since they clearly could not handle that first weekend of demand.
Hopefully these aren't the same people demanding a refund.
Second, if Google Code is hosting this it probably means either that 1) Apple is giving the nod to this kind of development, 2) they are going to release an SDK or 3) Apple will realize the need for people to access the iPhone as a development platform to do really cool stuff with it. All three options are good for me.
1 and 2 are ridiculous claims based off of this information, and I'm pretty sure they were already aware of #3 based off of the grumbling developers and blogs after WWDC.
but this standpoint may have something to do with apple's focus on hardware. Hardware patents have seemed to work better for them in general - see multitouch, magsafe, iPod wheel, etc.
Nevermind the fact that even iTunes is excluded from OTA downloads on the iPhone...
This may change in the future, but that's entirely up to Apple. It's their platform, they can do what they want with it. You're free to purchase, or not purchase, from them.
Not to mention that because emusic is entirely DRM free, you're free to download them normally on your desktop and then put it in iTunes. I do it with an iPod every month...
Sheesh, even mediocre announcements are trying to ride iPhone hype.
And if Microsoft were to use the strategy you suggest, how is that any different from MSFT leveraging their desktop monopoly to gain share in the Internet search space, something they've been doing very poorly at thus far? Just because Google has a dominant share doesn't make an action like that of Microsoft's legal.
Good job spending half your post complaining about QuickTime when it's very easy to download Safari without it. Like when you choose which download you want between Safari+Quicktime or just Safari.
How are they making Windows look bad? It's a very cut and dry support document. "You have an iPod or iTunes. You might have Windows Vista. Here's what doesn't work right now and here's what you should do. We will fix these things fully in the near term."
How about this: the forum post deletions are the result of an overzealous moderator, and as a result, your post to slashdot is the result is an overzealous conspiracy theory?
Dumb bug on someone's part, but you're looking for a conspiracy where there is likely none.
My experience with cancelling with some of these companies differed somewhat.
Real Rhapsody/SuperPass services
I'd rate this as "moderate hassle." For some reason you can't cancel online, you have to call their phone number in order to cancel. Once you get a human, it's an Indian call center and you might have trouble hearing them (par for the course I'm afraid). My experience was pretty easy thouh. I told them I wanted to cancel, they asked me why, I told them I had a Mac and no longer desired their services or their crashy web plugin, and that was that. I didn't get any pushback or retention techniques.
My experience with SuperPass was about 3 years ago, but similarly easy. It might've been an American back then though.
The rep also told me that I would have to remove my billing information from the RealNetworks system manually; otherwise, RealNetworks would keep it so that--if I decided to buy something from the company later--I wouldn't have to input my billing information again.
This sounds pretty reasonable to me actually. For some it's a convenience. Since cancelling I haven't had any Rhapsody charges on my card though so I don't think it's a malicious thing.
Netflix
Netflix was extremely easy I thought. Pushed a few buttons in My Account and they didn't bill me on my next cycle. Reactivating my account like a year later was also really easy, but that's not what this guy was concerned about.
The old Opera (pre 7.0 I think? or maybe 6.0) didn't let you have both an MDI and SDI at once. You had multiple windows inside one Opera window that were not stylized to look like tabs. At some point (maybe Opera 6) you could choose between that or having more than one Opera window open (e.g. they'd show up in the Windows taskbar) but you still couldn't mix and match. Finally in like Opera 7 or so you could actually do both. That was the new thing that Mozilla brought in: Mozilla started out as doing multiple windows only but then let you add tabs inside each of those windows.
Granted, the concept itself within browsers probably belongs to Opera, but Mozilla did not rip off Opera exactly. The word innovation might be too strong, suggesting it was entirely new, but that's a word choice issue.
Not to mention it looks like Steven Levy essentially duped his own article for the Guardian, with the added benefit of time and history with the shuffle to make a conclusion.
My my is this a stupid comment. It's DRM'd, so it is automatically enforced. These are encrypted WMA files we're talking about, not a burned CD with a CD key written in sharpie.
Slashdot Mirror
Probably an admission that viiv and vpro haven't been anywhere near the success that Centrino was.
Can I have a pony too?
Seriously, with the specs you're asking for, that's not going to cost any less than $1000. Can't be any larger than an iPhone, but somehow manage to have an 8hr batt with wifi and BT? I don't think you understand how these devices are made.
Uh, it's been only a little over 1 year since Episode 1 came out, and Episode 2 comes out in under 2 weeks.
Episode 2 was promised to us on a much more aggressive schedule, but if you've played TF2 you can see the amount of care they've put into it. Well worth the wait IMO, even if the TF2 wait was agonizing.
There's no vendor lock with AAC either. It's an open industry standard, where open does not mean 'free' in this instance. The Microsoft Zune supports AAC too, among others.
This is a ban on Internet SERVICE taxes, not state sales taxes. This would prevent a collection of sales and other taxes on your monthly ISP bill, such as what occurs with your cell phone and usual cable bill.
- As others have pointed out, there's nothing innately wrong with using Google for antiphishing. They have a large userbase, and can easily detect a mass of users flocking to a really sketchy site. Would it be a huge deal if they plugged into PhishTank?
- The submission does reflect this, but the feature isn't on by default. Instead, Firefox appears to use a static master black list that it redownloads periodically.
- I can't trigger it now, but I'm pretty sure that you're asked to confirm when you select Google that you're aware of the URL sending and other various privacy implications. The user will not be uninformed when they make this choice
- The feature is already present in Firefox 2. It is not new to Firefox 3. It's been well publicized before, and there haven't been any major problems since.
This is a pretty stupid low to go for some anti-Google hits.If you're targeting a world wide market, it's just common sense to go for GSM first. CDMA can come later when you're established.
Hopefully these aren't the same people demanding a refund.
Lacking wireless capabilities? It had both Wifi and Bluetooth for piggybacking on your phone's WAN connection.
One's growing significantly. The other's flat or decreasing gradually.
1 and 2 are ridiculous claims based off of this information, and I'm pretty sure they were already aware of #3 based off of the grumbling developers and blogs after WWDC.
but this standpoint may have something to do with apple's focus on hardware. Hardware patents have seemed to work better for them in general - see multitouch, magsafe, iPod wheel, etc.
Nevermind the fact that even iTunes is excluded from OTA downloads on the iPhone...
This may change in the future, but that's entirely up to Apple. It's their platform, they can do what they want with it. You're free to purchase, or not purchase, from them.
Not to mention that because emusic is entirely DRM free, you're free to download them normally on your desktop and then put it in iTunes. I do it with an iPod every month...
Sheesh, even mediocre announcements are trying to ride iPhone hype.
And if Microsoft were to use the strategy you suggest, how is that any different from MSFT leveraging their desktop monopoly to gain share in the Internet search space, something they've been doing very poorly at thus far? Just because Google has a dominant share doesn't make an action like that of Microsoft's legal.
Good job spending half your post complaining about QuickTime when it's very easy to download Safari without it. Like when you choose which download you want between Safari+Quicktime or just Safari.
How are they making Windows look bad? It's a very cut and dry support document. "You have an iPod or iTunes. You might have Windows Vista. Here's what doesn't work right now and here's what you should do. We will fix these things fully in the near term."
How about this: the forum post deletions are the result of an overzealous moderator, and as a result, your post to slashdot is the result is an overzealous conspiracy theory?
Dumb bug on someone's part, but you're looking for a conspiracy where there is likely none.
Real Rhapsody/SuperPass services
This sounds pretty reasonable to me actually. For some it's a convenience. Since cancelling I haven't had any Rhapsody charges on my card though so I don't think it's a malicious thing.I'd rate this as "moderate hassle." For some reason you can't cancel online, you have to call their phone number in order to cancel. Once you get a human, it's an Indian call center and you might have trouble hearing them (par for the course I'm afraid). My experience was pretty easy thouh. I told them I wanted to cancel, they asked me why, I told them I had a Mac and no longer desired their services or their crashy web plugin, and that was that. I didn't get any pushback or retention techniques.
My experience with SuperPass was about 3 years ago, but similarly easy. It might've been an American back then though.
Netflix
Netflix was extremely easy I thought. Pushed a few buttons in My Account and they didn't bill me on my next cycle. Reactivating my account like a year later was also really easy, but that's not what this guy was concerned about.
Can't wait for the new Google location!
Maybe this is why I hate my Korean phone so much.
Someone should ask Blizzard how that cross-platform experiment with World of Warcraft is working for them.
The old Opera (pre 7.0 I think? or maybe 6.0) didn't let you have both an MDI and SDI at once. You had multiple windows inside one Opera window that were not stylized to look like tabs. At some point (maybe Opera 6) you could choose between that or having more than one Opera window open (e.g. they'd show up in the Windows taskbar) but you still couldn't mix and match. Finally in like Opera 7 or so you could actually do both. That was the new thing that Mozilla brought in: Mozilla started out as doing multiple windows only but then let you add tabs inside each of those windows.
Granted, the concept itself within browsers probably belongs to Opera, but Mozilla did not rip off Opera exactly. The word innovation might be too strong, suggesting it was entirely new, but that's a word choice issue.
Not to mention it looks like Steven Levy essentially duped his own article for the Guardian, with the added benefit of time and history with the shuffle to make a conclusion.
My my is this a stupid comment. It's DRM'd, so it is automatically enforced. These are encrypted WMA files we're talking about, not a burned CD with a CD key written in sharpie.
I can't imagine this working all that well when there's a major line in the "NO ID" section.