Obviously this is a "bad thing" but I predict "good things" for consumers out of this. Consumers will learn they can avoid extra ads by using https. Content providers will learn they can improve their customer's experience by removing ISP ads by using https. Sites will have to have signed certificates, and users will have to import them. Phishing ends (well of course not because of Cook's Law and the web becomes a much safer place, because no more unencrypted traffic!
And seriously -- we've got the bandwidth -- why not encrypt it all now? Maybe not mobile bandwidth, but ok, we'll live. Maybe this is the draconian kickin the ass we need to get more serious about our own privacy??
Actually, there is a good bit of symmetry here. I often say that the Intelligent Design(ID) people admire how the Man Made Climate Change (MMCC) people have pushed their cause. If you believe in the scientific method you have no problems with anyone challenging a theory. In fact, you'd welcome it because it either disproves the theory or makes it more accurate.
Evolution has advanced in it's "completeness" as a theory because of many challenges made to it over the years, and those challenges have helped science immensely. Just because a theory is wideley accepted however, does not mean that it is correct. Prior to Plate Tectonics being widely accepted it was scorned and rejected by leading scientists who had careers built on "old science." This incidentally what the subject line of this post refers to: subduction is one continental shelf sliding under another, and orogeny is mountain building (of course since this is/. let me point out IANAG).
Yet because the heart of Geophysics is still physics, these great scientists were able to accept challenges and look at the new theory and say "yes -- this fits better." And that's what's awesome (and to me holy) about SCIENCE. You can challenge ANY assertion, and if your model is better, it will persuade people. I'm sure some physicist can help me out and show how the theory of gravity has changed massively since Newton -- even though a lay person would say "yeah, I get gravity."
So here's where Expelled and ID fall down -- we KNOW their theory. What is being taught in schools about evolution is mostly demonstrable. We can show evolution in anti-biotic resistant strains of bacteria, that directly impacts humans and health. ID is being taught in the appropriate places --
houses of worship -- where challenges are heresy. Yet in teaching SCIENCE in schools we want to teach that every assertion CAN be challenged and should be observable. That's what science is -- an attempt to understand the universe through observation and experimentation. If someone wants to challenge something in science and can bring legitimate observations to the table, they should be welcomed for the CRITICAL (pun intended) role they play in the process. ID has to reject the scientific method, science always looks for challenges to make the model more accurate -- but ID is by definition perfectly accurate already, and cannot be challenged.
I support everything the MMCC people want as an end result -- I'd like to see us embrace alternative energy, stop burning fossil fuels and generally be more conscious of the impact we have on the planet. I also think that there is a real harm being done to science when people with legitimate complaints about the SCIENCE of MMCC are treated as pariahs. Although I tend to think that MMCC is real, and there is certainly no harm in proceeding to curb our carbon emissions, I welcome the legimate claims of people who think that solar cycles are responsible, or that this period is not particularly warm on a geological chart of temperatures. These are legitimate scientific ideas based on observation and empirical data. MMCC as a theory will gain much more respect when it embraces challenges, instead of treating them in the same way ID treats challenges -- by throwing the scientific method under a bus. On the other hand, if the MMCC people do succeed in making challenges to their "science" become heresy, the ID people will be sure to take notes in how that happened.
You're certainly not going to win any friends by telling the dev team they are part of IT. It might be splitting hairs to the SUITS, but all the people who can set up their own internet connection should understand that dev, database, ops, QA and IT are COMPLETELY different. Now -- sometimes one person has to do all these jobs -- that's what a start up is. But if your company is big enough to have 2 vice presidents, I suspect there is separation. Besides. who besides dev ever thinks that having QA and dev performed by the same people is a good idea?
Mothers take their babies with sniffles to the ER because pharmaceuticals tell them too with scare tactics on TV. "This may be signs of a serious problem!"
"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public..." wrote Adam Smith in 1776. IT was true then and it's true now. Medical patents are bullshit. If a drug can be reverse engineered, great. People say new drugs won't be developed, but maybe chemists and pharmaceutical executives need to be paid on the same scale as teacher in public schools. There are some very talented teachers out there -- working essentially altruistically. I think pharma can find these people too.
Both sides are fascism. As Ron Paul said : "We're not moving toward Hitler-type fascism, but we're moving toward a softer fascism: Loss of civil liberties, corporations running the show, big government in bed with big business. So you have the military-industrial complex, you have the medical-industrial complex, you have the financial industry, you have the communications industry. They go to Washington and spend hundreds of millions of dollars."
Ralph Nader put it best: Republicans and Democrats are competing to serve their corporate masters.
Well, Ron Paul SHOULD still be in at this point. That's not trolling.
There are a lot of Republicans who just WON'T vote for McCain. Ron should and will stay in the race, and those McCain haters are going to vote for him, just like they did for Huckabee. Hopefully they'll also learn something. The current election is always about the next one for the candidates who don't win. I think that inspite of what we know here, and the best efforts of many on this board, there are about 300 million citizens in the US who don't know anything more about Ron Paul's positions than that he is completely against the Iraq war. If the nation becomes better informed about the REAL cost of lowering interest rates and devaluing the dollar, things might actually change.
The link that says listen on the order page launches the entire album in a stream.
But I see your confusion. You have to actually click on the link for it to work -- you can't just literally listen UNTIL you click the link.
:) And your right. It would have been nice if the original post included the above link straight to the player. Probably time for one of those "you must be new here" quotes.:)
Well, I've done my bit -- blogged, dontaed, converted people around me, etc. But the fact of the matter is that if we're all doing this, we're probably mostly preaching to the choir. I actually think we all did a good job of ad-hoc campaigning, and got about as good a result as you can expect without ORGANIZED campaigning. By definition if we're not all working together, we're not as organized as we could be, and not as effective.
Like most/.ers, I've been enamored of Ron Paul, but this poor showing in what should have been Ron's best state is disheartening to me. Yes, I know it was better than Fred Thompson -- but to be 2 places behind Huckabee? Ron's campaign seems to be so much more about the message than the man, which is great -- that's the way it should be. But the message is not getting our there. And I'm not sure why. Ron had a great point in the ABC debate when he pointed out that the price of a barrel of oil in gold is the same as it was in 1992. Everyone can understand that, and it clarifies why fixing fiscal policy is a giant issue. Ron's ideas of cutting spending, ending the war, following the Constitution and removing the income tax seem to be at least talking points that should be doing better than what Ron seems to be getting in the polls. So where is the disconnect?
I think the problem is that getting elected is still about campaigning -- and Ron's campaign is not being run as skillfully as others. Living in MA, I was waiting for the call to volunteer. I signed up to make phone calls, hold signs, do anything. I was never contacted or asked to do anything.
So I'll still keep giving money -- I want Ron's ideas to be heard everywhere, so that in 2012 the right candidate will not be buried/censored/mocked by the main stream media. And hopefully the campaign will raise the money sooner, and hire a real campaign manager. To change everything, as Ron and his followers want to do, will mean winning a presidential election -- and doing that means winning an American style presidential campaign. The message can win -- if it gets out there.
I hope someone can convince me there's still hope for this year, because I want to believe.
Your missing out if you only skimmed the article. Make sure you find this gem:
When the family returned to the suburbs two days later, the cesium clocks were off by the precise amount relativity predicted. He and his family had lived just a little more life than the neighbors.
An amazing PROOF that time is actually affected by gravity. We still know so little (ahem) relatively about time in physics, that seeing evidence of it being manipulated in this manner is awesome. will there be giant contained gravity wells in ambulances to slow time while patients are rushed to the hospital? Will I be slowing down time so I can get First Post AND spell check? The possibilities are endless!
You're exactly right. Comcast should either not bother to filter any specific traffic or charge for all. Maybe a charge of $0.01 per MB either uploaded or downloaded would be more fair? Or you could adjust a price structure that affects p2p more -- All the download you want, and 0.05/mb uploaded. Of course up includes requests for web pages, filling out forms, etc.
The thing is, if this were lucrative, Comcast would have done it by now. The market can take care of itself on things like this. I can guarantee that if Comcast went to "less than unlimited" access to the internet, Verizon DSL and FIOS would see an ENORMOUS jump in traffic.
If you're going to attack traffic on the internet, be prepared to attack VOIP, gaming and video conferencing, because they too are significantly impacting your bandwidth, and becoming more and more prevalent.
Fortunately for you Mark Cuban, you are in a position to test your theory. Open up an ISP in Dallas that specifically blocks P2P. See how it does. If it's as good a business model as you suggest, I suspect, you quickly be a wealthy man.:)
Of course what makes a mac great is the stability AND the OS. And much of that stability comes from knowing exactly what devices are in the machine If someone can get Leopard running on cheaper hardware, and keep it stable, you might see a new round of "DIY" Mac at some point. And that is something Apple really does not want.
If that happens, expect mac to counter-salvo via software updates -- bricking devices, instead of just phones
The problem is not the charts, but the information itself. Although Google reads PDFs and puts them into it's index, PDF is fundamentally a printing format, and not easily searchable by a browser.
Having the raw data available is fine, but the raw fact is this -- they chose to not express this report in a web format, when it would have been trivial to do so. Also, they have the raw data available in ZIP files!!! Is there a browser out there that does not support gzip? (Well yes, of course, but the are such a small percentage, that I think the savings in zipping is negligible). Why not gzip on the server side? Why force me through one more step when I should be able to view the csv/tsv in my browser.
And this is the REAL problem with web design -- the premier web style instruction site is not interested in presenting information in a web format. They think it's more about design than it is about data accessibility. Here's my newsflash. If you can't find the data, the design is worthless. In the ideal world design COMPLEMENTS the data. I would not bother to complain, if this weren't purporting to be the premier web style site.
ok I'll bite, what does that show about FF threading model? Rendered in 5.13 secs on my gaming machine in FF 2.0.0.7 and 9 secs in IE7? I don't mean this as a slam -- if you've got knowledge, please dish.
Seriously! As soon as I saw it was a PDF -- posted to the web, I thought "AHA -- It's a poll of shitty web developers. That explains a lot."
And lot's not forget, it's not just a PDF -- it's a friggin' 84 page PDF. In tribute to this stupidity, I am going to follow it up by printing off copies and bringing them to my local/. anniversary party for everyone.
Considering that there are businesses in place betting on this, you can be sure that people will get that stuff to market. As for cards they also have to be licensed by the FCC. But WiMax is going to be online very soon -- Motorola will now not only be developing the network in Chicago, but also in Detroit, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Kansas City, and Minneapolis. Samsung will also be developing the market in a number of cities: Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia, Providence, and the previously-announced Washington D.C. Finally, Nokia will be responsible for developing the network in Austin, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, and Seattle. All in all, Sprint plans to roll out WiMAX in 19 cities across the US by April 2008.
...how does it BENEFIT them to go after the phones and turn them into bricks?...they are going after these hacked iPhones as if they were a threat to the company and their profits...
well, yes. That's exactly why they are doing it, and it benefits them enormously. Apple gets paid because you have to buy every little thing from Apple -- ring tones, software, etc. If people hack the device, they lose that money. I'm pretty sure they don't care which network you're on EXCEPT that if you get access to the OS you might start using apps that they intend to sell you later. 3rd party software for the other smart phones is a GIANT business -- That's the money that apple is looking for here. the $$$ of profit on each iphone is ok, but there's hardware involved, so profit margins get squeezed as time progresses (especialy with $200 price cuts). The ROI on software however is fantastic if you have a captive audience. Look at MSFT and Office. MSFT makes much more $$$ from Office (and other software) than they do from Windows. MSFT had a similar plan with the XBox. The Hardware was not where the money was -- the software was.
Apple has the same vision for the IPhone. In a few more months, there will be phones that are just as sexy, and the hardware squeeze will be even tighter. Apple is DEPENDING on $$$ from sales of software, ringtones and other services.
I have no problem admitting that Apple can be an assholish company -- in fact, I'm way ahead of you on this -- I'm like many people who love my mac, but hate Apple. Yet, I think Apple is getting the short end of the stick here because they told everyone that this was what they would do LONG before the Iphone was for sale. They said specifically, no 3rd party apps, no mods, no ringtones. People who hacked the devices knew this -- so I don't understand the bitching. Either restore your phone, and then apply the updates, or don't apply the updates. If you've made a firmware or hardware hack, how could you possibly expect future software updates to work? I'm no Apple fan at all, but this is EXACTLY what Defective By Design means, and Apple was very upfront about it.
Hopefully consumers will be more resistant to buying devices like this in the future, but I do not blame Apple for shoveling out shit when so many are willing to feed.
It's definitely than legal. You don't have to apply the apple update your phone. THAT's your contract with apple -- if you want apple to continue to support your phone, you have to play by their rules. This is EXACTLY what defective by design is all about, and I honestly don't understand the bitching about it. Apple was very clear from day one that they could do this, and they were making a device that was designed to make them money. I completely don't approve of it, and I did not buy an Iphone for exactly these reasons. But Apple was completely upfront about it. They made it very clear in their press releases, etc, that they would lock the device down, force users to buy ring tones through ITMS, not allow 3rd party development, and would seek to monetize EVERY aspect of the Iphone they could.
If you want to hack up the device to use it the way you want, fine and dandy, but if you want apple to keep upgrading it after you've hacked it, that's unrealistic, and as much as I really dislike the controls Apple has placed on what would be a great device if you could do what you want with it, I don't think it's fair to complain about them doing EXACTLY what they said they would do before the device came out. Apple is releasing updates under the premise that they know the condition of everything important on the brick -- er phone. If things have changed, unbeknownst to them, they are not responsible for what happens when you do updates.
As for it being legal for you to unlock your phone -- it COMPLETELY is -- that right is guaranteed to you by the DMCA. But once you do that, you are taking a risk still running apple updates. And as much as I dislike what apple has done with the Iphone, I don't think you can say what they are doing here is unfair. They told us all a long time ago that the device was going to be as locked down as possible. People who bought it, knew that. Or at least the people who bought it and applied the hacks.
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Obviously this is a "bad thing" but I predict "good things" for consumers out of this. Consumers will learn they can avoid extra ads by using https. Content providers will learn they can improve their customer's experience by removing ISP ads by using https. Sites will have to have signed certificates, and users will have to import them. Phishing ends (well of course not because of Cook's Law and the web becomes a much safer place, because no more unencrypted traffic!
And seriously -- we've got the bandwidth -- why not encrypt it all now? Maybe not mobile bandwidth, but ok, we'll live. Maybe this is the draconian kickin the ass we need to get more serious about our own privacy??
Actually, there is a good bit of symmetry here. I often say that the Intelligent Design(ID) people admire how the Man Made Climate Change (MMCC) people have pushed their cause. If you believe in the scientific method you have no problems with anyone challenging a theory. In fact, you'd welcome it because it either disproves the theory or makes it more accurate.
Evolution has advanced in it's "completeness" as a theory because of many challenges made to it over the years, and those challenges have helped science immensely. Just because a theory is wideley accepted however, does not mean that it is correct. Prior to Plate Tectonics being widely accepted it was scorned and rejected by leading scientists who had careers built on "old science." This incidentally what the subject line of this post refers to: subduction is one continental shelf sliding under another, and orogeny is mountain building (of course since this is /. let me point out IANAG).
Yet because the heart of Geophysics is still physics, these great scientists were able to accept challenges and look at the new theory and say "yes -- this fits better." And that's what's awesome (and to me holy) about SCIENCE. You can challenge ANY assertion, and if your model is better, it will persuade people. I'm sure some physicist can help me out and show how the theory of gravity has changed massively since Newton -- even though a lay person would say "yeah, I get gravity."
So here's where Expelled and ID fall down -- we KNOW their theory. What is being taught in schools about evolution is mostly demonstrable. We can show evolution in anti-biotic resistant strains of bacteria, that directly impacts humans and health. ID is being taught in the appropriate places -- houses of worship -- where challenges are heresy. Yet in teaching SCIENCE in schools we want to teach that every assertion CAN be challenged and should be observable. That's what science is -- an attempt to understand the universe through observation and experimentation. If someone wants to challenge something in science and can bring legitimate observations to the table, they should be welcomed for the CRITICAL (pun intended) role they play in the process. ID has to reject the scientific method, science always looks for challenges to make the model more accurate -- but ID is by definition perfectly accurate already, and cannot be challenged.
I support everything the MMCC people want as an end result -- I'd like to see us embrace alternative energy, stop burning fossil fuels and generally be more conscious of the impact we have on the planet. I also think that there is a real harm being done to science when people with legitimate complaints about the SCIENCE of MMCC are treated as pariahs. Although I tend to think that MMCC is real, and there is certainly no harm in proceeding to curb our carbon emissions, I welcome the legimate claims of people who think that solar cycles are responsible, or that this period is not particularly warm on a geological chart of temperatures. These are legitimate scientific ideas based on observation and empirical data. MMCC as a theory will gain much more respect when it embraces challenges, instead of treating them in the same way ID treats challenges -- by throwing the scientific method under a bus. On the other hand, if the MMCC people do succeed in making challenges to their "science" become heresy, the ID people will be sure to take notes in how that happened.
Um -- AC has UID of 1 I think. Unless things have changed since 2.2.5 :)
You're certainly not going to win any friends by telling the dev team they are part of IT. It might be splitting hairs to the SUITS, but all the people who can set up their own internet connection should understand that dev, database, ops, QA and IT are COMPLETELY different. Now -- sometimes one person has to do all these jobs -- that's what a start up is. But if your company is big enough to have 2 vice presidents, I suspect there is separation. Besides. who besides dev ever thinks that having QA and dev performed by the same people is a good idea?
In Soviet Russia, Military makes memes about you! ummm... wait...
Mothers take their babies with sniffles to the ER because pharmaceuticals tell them too with scare tactics on TV. "This may be signs of a serious problem!" "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public..." wrote Adam Smith in 1776. IT was true then and it's true now. Medical patents are bullshit. If a drug can be reverse engineered, great. People say new drugs won't be developed, but maybe chemists and pharmaceutical executives need to be paid on the same scale as teacher in public schools. There are some very talented teachers out there -- working essentially altruistically. I think pharma can find these people too.
here is where the industrial kicks in
And you asked where I work? We affectionately refer to it as Man's Greatest Hospital
Both sides are fascism. As Ron Paul said : "We're not moving toward Hitler-type fascism, but we're moving toward a softer fascism: Loss of civil liberties, corporations running the show, big government in bed with big business. So you have the military-industrial complex, you have the medical-industrial complex, you have the financial industry, you have the communications industry. They go to Washington and spend hundreds of millions of dollars."
Ralph Nader put it best: Republicans and Democrats are competing to serve their corporate masters.
Well, Ron Paul SHOULD still be in at this point. That's not trolling.
There are a lot of Republicans who just WON'T vote for McCain. Ron should and will stay in the race, and those McCain haters are going to vote for him, just like they did for Huckabee. Hopefully they'll also learn something. The current election is always about the next one for the candidates who don't win. I think that inspite of what we know here, and the best efforts of many on this board, there are about 300 million citizens in the US who don't know anything more about Ron Paul's positions than that he is completely against the Iraq war. If the nation becomes better informed about the REAL cost of lowering interest rates and devaluing the dollar, things might actually change.
She has more delegates now. http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#TX
Texas has 228 total delegates, 126 tied to March 4 primary, 67 tied to March 4 caucuses and 12 superdelegates
She will have even more delegates after the caucuses finish.
The link that says listen on the order page launches the entire album in a stream.
But I see your confusion. You have to actually click on the link for it to work -- you can't just literally listen UNTIL you click the link.
:) And your right. It would have been nice if the original post included the above link straight to the player. Probably time for one of those "you must be new here" quotes. :)
http://duartes.org.nyud.net/gustavo/blog/post/2008/02/20/Richard-Feynman-Challenger-Disaster-Software-Engineering.aspx As a side note, could someone make a grease monkey script to make all links frmo /. run through coral? it just makes sense
I believe the game you are looking for is called Conquest. It has of course been ported to Linux, and still is quite fun for multiplayer.
Well, I've done my bit -- blogged, dontaed, converted people around me, etc. But the fact of the matter is that if we're all doing this, we're probably mostly preaching to the choir. I actually think we all did a good job of ad-hoc campaigning, and got about as good a result as you can expect without ORGANIZED campaigning. By definition if we're not all working together, we're not as organized as we could be, and not as effective.
Like most /.ers, I've been enamored of Ron Paul, but this poor showing in what should have been Ron's best state is disheartening to me. Yes, I know it was better than Fred Thompson -- but to be 2 places behind Huckabee? Ron's campaign seems to be so much more about the message than the man, which is great -- that's the way it should be. But the message is not getting our there. And I'm not sure why. Ron had a great point in the ABC debate when he pointed out that the price of a barrel of oil in gold is the same as it was in 1992. Everyone can understand that, and it clarifies why fixing fiscal policy is a giant issue. Ron's ideas of cutting spending, ending the war, following the Constitution and removing the income tax seem to be at least talking points that should be doing better than what Ron seems to be getting in the polls. So where is the disconnect?
I think the problem is that getting elected is still about campaigning -- and Ron's campaign is not being run as skillfully as others. Living in MA, I was waiting for the call to volunteer. I signed up to make phone calls, hold signs, do anything. I was never contacted or asked to do anything.
So I'll still keep giving money -- I want Ron's ideas to be heard everywhere, so that in 2012 the right candidate will not be buried/censored/mocked by the main stream media. And hopefully the campaign will raise the money sooner, and hire a real campaign manager. To change everything, as Ron and his followers want to do, will mean winning a presidential election -- and doing that means winning an American style presidential campaign. The message can win -- if it gets out there.
I hope someone can convince me there's still hope for this year, because I want to believe.
Your missing out if you only skimmed the article. Make sure you find this gem:
When the family returned to the suburbs two days later, the cesium clocks were off by the precise amount relativity predicted. He and his family had lived just a little more life than the neighbors.
An amazing PROOF that time is actually affected by gravity. We still know so little (ahem) relatively about time in physics, that seeing evidence of it being manipulated in this manner is awesome. will there be giant contained gravity wells in ambulances to slow time while patients are rushed to the hospital? Will I be slowing down time so I can get First Post AND spell check? The possibilities are endless!
You're exactly right. Comcast should either not bother to filter any specific traffic or charge for all. Maybe a charge of $0.01 per MB either uploaded or downloaded would be more fair? Or you could adjust a price structure that affects p2p more -- All the download you want, and 0.05/mb uploaded. Of course up includes requests for web pages, filling out forms, etc.
:)
The thing is, if this were lucrative, Comcast would have done it by now. The market can take care of itself on things like this. I can guarantee that if Comcast went to "less than unlimited" access to the internet, Verizon DSL and FIOS would see an ENORMOUS jump in traffic.
If you're going to attack traffic on the internet, be prepared to attack VOIP, gaming and video conferencing, because they too are significantly impacting your bandwidth, and becoming more and more prevalent.
Fortunately for you Mark Cuban, you are in a position to test your theory. Open up an ISP in Dallas that specifically blocks P2P. See how it does. If it's as good a business model as you suggest, I suspect, you quickly be a wealthy man.
We cannot break Skype encryption, and we have publicly announced that, so it's perfectly safe for you to keep on using it! Really!
If that happens, expect mac to counter-salvo via software updates -- bricking devices, instead of just phones
The problem is not the charts, but the information itself. Although Google reads PDFs and puts them into it's index, PDF is fundamentally a printing format, and not easily searchable by a browser.
Having the raw data available is fine, but the raw fact is this -- they chose to not express this report in a web format, when it would have been trivial to do so. Also, they have the raw data available in ZIP files!!! Is there a browser out there that does not support gzip? (Well yes, of course, but the are such a small percentage, that I think the savings in zipping is negligible). Why not gzip on the server side? Why force me through one more step when I should be able to view the csv/tsv in my browser.
And this is the REAL problem with web design -- the premier web style instruction site is not interested in presenting information in a web format. They think it's more about design than it is about data accessibility. Here's my newsflash. If you can't find the data, the design is worthless. In the ideal world design COMPLEMENTS the data. I would not bother to complain, if this weren't purporting to be the premier web style site.
ok I'll bite, what does that show about FF threading model? Rendered in 5.13 secs on my gaming machine in FF 2.0.0.7 and 9 secs in IE7? I don't mean this as a slam -- if you've got knowledge, please dish.
Seriously! As soon as I saw it was a PDF -- posted to the web, I thought "AHA -- It's a poll of shitty web developers. That explains a lot."
And lot's not forget, it's not just a PDF -- it's a friggin' 84 page PDF. In tribute to this stupidity, I am going to follow it up by printing off copies and bringing them to my local /. anniversary party for everyone.
Considering that there are businesses in place betting on this, you can be sure that people will get that stuff to market. As for cards they also have to be licensed by the FCC. But WiMax is going to be online very soon -- Motorola will now not only be developing the network in Chicago, but also in Detroit, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Kansas City, and Minneapolis. Samsung will also be developing the market in a number of cities: Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia, Providence, and the previously-announced Washington D.C. Finally, Nokia will be responsible for developing the network in Austin, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, and Seattle. All in all, Sprint plans to roll out WiMAX in 19 cities across the US by April 2008.
well, yes. That's exactly why they are doing it, and it benefits them enormously. Apple gets paid because you have to buy every little thing from Apple -- ring tones, software, etc. If people hack the device, they lose that money. I'm pretty sure they don't care which network you're on EXCEPT that if you get access to the OS you might start using apps that they intend to sell you later. 3rd party software for the other smart phones is a GIANT business -- That's the money that apple is looking for here. the $$$ of profit on each iphone is ok, but there's hardware involved, so profit margins get squeezed as time progresses (especialy with $200 price cuts). The ROI on software however is fantastic if you have a captive audience. Look at MSFT and Office. MSFT makes much more $$$ from Office (and other software) than they do from Windows. MSFT had a similar plan with the XBox. The Hardware was not where the money was -- the software was.
Apple has the same vision for the IPhone. In a few more months, there will be phones that are just as sexy, and the hardware squeeze will be even tighter. Apple is DEPENDING on $$$ from sales of software, ringtones and other services.
I have no problem admitting that Apple can be an assholish company -- in fact, I'm way ahead of you on this -- I'm like many people who love my mac, but hate Apple. Yet, I think Apple is getting the short end of the stick here because they told everyone that this was what they would do LONG before the Iphone was for sale. They said specifically, no 3rd party apps, no mods, no ringtones. People who hacked the devices knew this -- so I don't understand the bitching. Either restore your phone, and then apply the updates, or don't apply the updates. If you've made a firmware or hardware hack, how could you possibly expect future software updates to work? I'm no Apple fan at all, but this is EXACTLY what Defective By Design means, and Apple was very upfront about it.
Hopefully consumers will be more resistant to buying devices like this in the future, but I do not blame Apple for shoveling out shit when so many are willing to feed.
It's definitely than legal. You don't have to apply the apple update your phone. THAT's your contract with apple -- if you want apple to continue to support your phone, you have to play by their rules. This is EXACTLY what defective by design is all about, and I honestly don't understand the bitching about it. Apple was very clear from day one that they could do this, and they were making a device that was designed to make them money. I completely don't approve of it, and I did not buy an Iphone for exactly these reasons. But Apple was completely upfront about it. They made it very clear in their press releases, etc, that they would lock the device down, force users to buy ring tones through ITMS, not allow 3rd party development, and would seek to monetize EVERY aspect of the Iphone they could.
If you want to hack up the device to use it the way you want, fine and dandy, but if you want apple to keep upgrading it after you've hacked it, that's unrealistic, and as much as I really dislike the controls Apple has placed on what would be a great device if you could do what you want with it, I don't think it's fair to complain about them doing EXACTLY what they said they would do before the device came out. Apple is releasing updates under the premise that they know the condition of everything important on the brick -- er phone. If things have changed, unbeknownst to them, they are not responsible for what happens when you do updates.
As for it being legal for you to unlock your phone -- it COMPLETELY is -- that right is guaranteed to you by the DMCA. But once you do that, you are taking a risk still running apple updates. And as much as I dislike what apple has done with the Iphone, I don't think you can say what they are doing here is unfair. They told us all a long time ago that the device was going to be as locked down as possible. People who bought it, knew that. Or at least the people who bought it and applied the hacks.