When Apple patched a serious SSL vulnerability back in February, they required users to upgrade to iOS 7 to get it. Apple also released a security update for iOS 6, but if your device was capable of running 7, you couldn't install it.
Sounds like a forced upgrade to me.
"It is true that a large poor population will probably result in increased social problems, such a crime. However this doesn't mean necessarily that there will be a revolt."
Well... I think you're being a bit paranoid. Microsoft is a fantastic monopoly and they have abused that monopoly in countless and incalculable ways. The regulators are in fact no match for MS. Just look at how their business has been affected so far. Redesigned software boxes? New ad campaigns? Sounds trivial to me.
The whole thing is absurd - not for the reasons that you give, but for the fact that Microsoft is a bigger economy than some member states of the EU. And we've allowed corporations like this to grow so big that it takes a supra-national body like the EC to make an impact on them at all. Why would the EC go after a small open source company like yours? How can you even comprehend that as a possibility?
Microsoft made a big mistake and they're paying for it. Apple may have made one with Fairplay, but I don't personally think so.
Not being privy to the future, I would have to guess that Linux kernel documentation will not stifle an industry for its absence.
Still... document your code. It's just good practice.
I just spoke with a Bell Canada rep, who said that the company is rolling out a similar service called Sympatico Optimax, which is FTTN (Fiber to the neighborhood), on June 14. They are offering 7, 12 and 16 Mbps. I think this is the first time it's been offered in Canada.
My plan is to share the connection with the other apartments in this house, making it fast and cheap at the same time.
Three cheers for fiber!
Apple has made a career out and a fortune out of portraying their competitors as evil and dominating, and people who buy their competitors' products as boring and conforming.
That's because their competitors are evil and dominating. And people who buy their competitors' products are boring and conforming, and they know it. What world do you live in?
As far as this whole "ideology vs technology" thing, that hasn't been Apple's "turf" for damn near a decade.
If you have to buy useless consumer crap, you could do a whole lot worse than the iPod, IMHO.
"The stencilled graphics and ancient typewriter font give the impression of an underground movement against cultural homogenisation. But visit the idont.com Web site espoused by the ads and you'll uncover a different story. Far from a triumph of AdBusters or a campaign financed by Naomi Klein converts, these posters are actually SanDisk's new marketing campaign."
Uh... Underground movement against cultural homogenisation? AdBusters? Naomi Klein?
They seem to be taking their cues from some really effective and successful campaigns.
I just shared the news with my roommates, who are going through an awfully difficult break-up.
They've been so upset for so long, and today when I told them about how their hearts can regenerate, I think I saw hope in their eyes for the first time...
Well done. I'm glad to see that you are an articulate, thoughtful and engaged person behind your keyboard. Maybe it was, as you suggest, the grammar and spelling that threw me off to begin with.
I certainly understand your concerns about censorship. In fact, I am an artist myself and an admittedly shameless viewer of pornography. My parents didn't show me Playboy when I was a child, but it was hidden in the cupboard and easy to find.
I also played video games, though not an unhealthy amount as far as I know. I have played Grand Theft Auto and loved it. Perhaps it was a mistake to leave the nudity in this latest release in such a way that a simple patch could unlock it. If so, the designers probably regret the mistake. I'm sure they don't market the game to children, either.
I'll admit that I don't even know what an "AO" rating is, or who it is that "created the uproar" about this. What I do know is that it takes a village to raise a child, and video games that say they're one thing, but turn out to be another, don't help.
I'm sorry that you feel insulted, that I have assumptions and that your "opinions" are different.
Even if I were old enough to remember the first films ever made, some people had criticisms about those films. Obviously those people didn't win, but if I were that old, and writing this, I would hope you'd listen to what I had to say and not just call me a "troll".
What I really wonder, though, is if this sequence of events was all so predictable, why didn't you say something earlier about the hidden content in the game? Then parents could have decided for themselves!
Why are they so enept at protecting their children that something must either be non-offensive or it cannot exist?
Who says it can't exist? You seem to be out of touch with reality...
The "difference" today is that videogames with graphic sex and violence even exist. My parents certainly didn't have them. You're right, it's not surprising that people are looking for tools to control these media.
Your so-called "right to have access to content that may be adult in nature" isn't affected at all by a changed rating. WTF are you whining about?
More like "Poor little American culture," or maybe you didn't grow up yourself yet? Jesus, you'd think it was no longer respectable to help a Mom take care of her "little baby."
People don't "grow up" when they're fed a diet of sex and violence. Your cynical post is more than enough evidence of that.
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When Apple patched a serious SSL vulnerability back in February, they required users to upgrade to iOS 7 to get it. Apple also released a security update for iOS 6, but if your device was capable of running 7, you couldn't install it. Sounds like a forced upgrade to me.
It'll be a long time before it gets paid off.
Yeah...
"Sorry, Liquid. I didn't get your English assignment. Can you try sending it again?"
What a blast.
... if you can't hide surprises inside the teacher's desk?
"It is true that a large poor population will probably result in increased social problems, such a crime. However this doesn't mean necessarily that there will be a revolt."
Right.
Except where revolts are happening.
In India.
Among the poor.
This is really happening... RTFA.
Well... I think you're being a bit paranoid. Microsoft is a fantastic monopoly and they have abused that monopoly in countless and incalculable ways. The regulators are in fact no match for MS. Just look at how their business has been affected so far. Redesigned software boxes? New ad campaigns? Sounds trivial to me.
The whole thing is absurd - not for the reasons that you give, but for the fact that Microsoft is a bigger economy than some member states of the EU. And we've allowed corporations like this to grow so big that it takes a supra-national body like the EC to make an impact on them at all. Why would the EC go after a small open source company like yours? How can you even comprehend that as a possibility?
Microsoft made a big mistake and they're paying for it. Apple may have made one with Fairplay, but I don't personally think so.
Not being privy to the future, I would have to guess that Linux kernel documentation will not stifle an industry for its absence.
Still... document your code. It's just good practice.
Consider that:
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1. The United States is responsible for a greater portion of the arms trade than all other "players" combined
2. The arms trade as a whole is in decline while America's total business is increasing
Source
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-08/
We see Apple port Brick to the console. Now THAT would be a gaming breakthrough.
I just spoke with a Bell Canada rep, who said that the company is rolling out a similar service called Sympatico Optimax, which is FTTN (Fiber to the neighborhood), on June 14. They are offering 7, 12 and 16 Mbps. I think this is the first time it's been offered in Canada. My plan is to share the connection with the other apartments in this house, making it fast and cheap at the same time. Three cheers for fiber!
As far as this whole "ideology vs technology" thing, that hasn't been Apple's "turf" for damn near a decade.
If you have to buy useless consumer crap, you could do a whole lot worse than the iPod, IMHO.
"The stencilled graphics and ancient typewriter font give the impression of an underground movement against cultural homogenisation. But visit the idont.com Web site espoused by the ads and you'll uncover a different story. Far from a triumph of AdBusters or a campaign financed by Naomi Klein converts, these posters are actually SanDisk's new marketing campaign."
Uh... Underground movement against cultural homogenisation? AdBusters? Naomi Klein?
They seem to be taking their cues from some really effective and successful campaigns.
I just shared the news with my roommates, who are going through an awfully difficult break-up.
They've been so upset for so long, and today when I told them about how their hearts can regenerate, I think I saw hope in their eyes for the first time...
It should come from the but-who-will-protect-us-from-nanotech dept.
Will it actually be revolutionary or will it be like the computer "revolution" which has basically benefited banks and advertising companies?
Does everyone think we actually need nanotechnology? What hazards will it create? Does anyone care?
extortion
Well done. I'm glad to see that you are an articulate, thoughtful and engaged person behind your keyboard. Maybe it was, as you suggest, the grammar and spelling that threw me off to begin with.
I certainly understand your concerns about censorship. In fact, I am an artist myself and an admittedly shameless viewer of pornography. My parents didn't show me Playboy when I was a child, but it was hidden in the cupboard and easy to find.
I also played video games, though not an unhealthy amount as far as I know. I have played Grand Theft Auto and loved it. Perhaps it was a mistake to leave the nudity in this latest release in such a way that a simple patch could unlock it. If so, the designers probably regret the mistake. I'm sure they don't market the game to children, either.
I'll admit that I don't even know what an "AO" rating is, or who it is that "created the uproar" about this. What I do know is that it takes a village to raise a child, and video games that say they're one thing, but turn out to be another, don't help.
I'm sorry that you feel insulted, that I have assumptions and that your "opinions" are different.
Even if I were old enough to remember the first films ever made, some people had criticisms about those films. Obviously those people didn't win, but if I were that old, and writing this, I would hope you'd listen to what I had to say and not just call me a "troll".
What I really wonder, though, is if this sequence of events was all so predictable, why didn't you say something earlier about the hidden content in the game? Then parents could have decided for themselves!
Let me modify that slightly to read "graphic sex and violence." Give little Johnny all the books he can handle.
More like "Poor little American culture," or maybe you didn't grow up yourself yet? Jesus, you'd think it was no longer respectable to help a Mom take care of her "little baby."
People don't "grow up" when they're fed a diet of sex and violence. Your cynical post is more than enough evidence of that.
Chaos theory.
war sure is iffy.
what's so funny?
This is pure sleaze. Wasn't "for the rest of us" an Apple slogan?
Even the guitar in the "Tommy Lee" ad (pathetic, but not blatantly a rip-off like the others) is the same one used at apple.com/music/
What's the deal here? "Get loaded"? Yuck.
Sorry for that last comment. I didn't notice the post above which said essentially the same thing.