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  1. Re:WTF on Apple's Messages Offers Free Texting With a Side of iPhone Lock-In · · Score: 2

    People seem to think this is a conspiracy, or deliberate attempt to break things for those switching, but honestly... how do they expect Apple to know that you've moved the sim card to a new device, and that you haven't just turned your phone off because you're on a plane/etc?

  2. Re:So what did they do about it? on Beer Fridge Caught Interfering With Cellular Network · · Score: 1

    ACMA (the the FCC in the US too, I imagine) has rules about you causing interference in various spectrum (especially the licensed stuff that the telcos pay a lot to use), so it is his problem.

  3. Re:Yes, this is a valid problem on Will Your Books and Music Die With You? · · Score: 1

    There was an option to pay (may still be there) to get rid of the DRM (~30c/song), I got rid of most of the DRM that way back in 2008. You haven't been able to pay less for DRM'd music in years though (and the "more for DRM-free" part went away too, replaced by some songs being slightly more expensive, and some old songs being slightly less so). Re-downloading previously purchased content does not require the iTunes Match cloud service, you browse it in the store interface. Match will however happily get you non-DRM'd versions of songs you have that were purchased by other iTunes accounts/countries stores though.

  4. Re:SpeakToIt Assistant on Siri Competitor Evi Arrives, But Already Overloaded · · Score: 2

    Unless this has changed in recent APIs, no it doesn't - the web browser does, but otherwise if you open the url "tel:somenumber" it will just start dialing.

    I never tried, but assume if you tried to submit an app that wasn't, say, an address book, it would get rejected if their wasn't a prompt first. Certainly if I'd published an app that did that I would have had a prompt.

  5. Re:Well, duh on iPhone 4S's Siri Is a Bandwidth Guzzler · · Score: 1

    Here's the thing: automatic downloading of music only applies to purchases, and then only happens over 3G if you go in and turn that on. All of the iCloud features that are new (PhotoStream, backups) only go over WiFi. If you're tormenting the 1GB of Rolling Stones then you're using iTunes match which doesn't automatically download to your device, you have to tell it to (either by playing the tracks or tapping download).

  6. Re:Lots of fun on Ask Slashdot: GNU/Linux Laptops? · · Score: 1

    I don't know, I've enjoyed watching more Linux and Windows users fiddling with their laptops trying to make the right video output through the projector to know plugging it in is at most only 25% of the fun.

  7. Re:People still boot up? on The Death of Booting Up · · Score: 1

    My Windows 7 running netbook puts itself into suspend-to-disk after ~18 hours in standby.

    My MacBook Air has a claimed 30 day standby, probably by actually doing something similar (I forget exactly what they do it).

    Of course, the Air boots up quickly enough not to need this, and with full-disk(ish)-encryption I really should shut it down instead.

  8. Re:Tethered. on Ask Slashdot: Mobile Data In Canada For a US Citizen? · · Score: 1

    Every time someone asks any kind of question like this someone, like you, will pipe up with a "just disconnect". And every single time it's unhelpful. This guy asked for "how can I do this" not "should I do this".

  9. Re:How Does the Same Company Make iPods and iTunes on Flawed iTunes Stands Out Among Apple's Products · · Score: 1

    Genius has never been anything but opt-in, requiring a store account to even activate it.

  10. Re:Jobs isn't betting his platform on it... on Six Reasons Why Flash Isn't Going Away · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately the information on the public iPad site is incorrect, but the iPad is most certainly capable of outputting 1280x720. I've seen it do it.

    Apologies for the long URL:
    http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/General/Conceptual/iPadProgrammingGuide/AboutThePlatform/AboutThePlatform.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40009370-CH4-SW7

    "An iPad can now be connected to an external display through a supported cable. Applications can use this connection to present content in addition to the content on the device’s main screen. Depending on the cable, you can output content at up to a 720p (1280 x 720) resolution. A resolution of 1024 by 768 resolution may also be available if you prefer to use that aspect ratio."

  11. Re:Jobs isn't betting his platform on it... on Six Reasons Why Flash Isn't Going Away · · Score: 1

    It may not be worth responding to someone uses the word fanboi, but apple do make a component video out adapter, and via both that and the VGA connector it is capable of doing 1280x720, and playing video through that. Quite rankly the A4 + with the h.264 chip most certainly does have the juice to play 720p video. The screen is 1024x768 for whatever commercial reasons Apple have (presumably to get IPS at a given price point), but that has nothing to do with its ability to playback a given resolution video. And down-scaling really doesn't help you out much with h.264. Certainly playing a 1080p file at 720p never made it watchable on my netbook.

  12. Re:So they can counterfeit on Report Says China Will Demand Source Code · · Score: 1

    Please correct me if I'm wrong but I think Apple is no better when it comes to the iPhone, if you want to sell your application you have to submitt the sourcecode.

    Er, yes, you are wrong. That's never been part of the App Store requirements. You only submit compiled binaries and screenshots.

  13. Re:You know what this means... on Apple Delays Leopard to October · · Score: 1

    Hint: who said anything about Leopard?

  14. Re:Very skeptical about these numbers on Google Apps Premier Edition Launches, Widely Used · · Score: 1

    -Outlook comes with an Exchange CAL.
    Actually, you have that the wrong way around. Plus that's no longer true anyway, as Exchange 2007 CALs no longer include an Outlook CAL.
  15. Re:Duh on Apple, the New Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    Actually recent Macs don't have a TPM: http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter10/tpm/ While there are (may?) be signed binaries, they obviously can't have anything to do with TPM.

  16. Re:Except... on Looking Beyond Vista To Fiji and Vienna · · Score: 1

    Odd that you mention cricket - the start of the coup itself was delayed when the first deadline for the prime minister to agree to the demands of the Commodore passed, with the military and the police playing a game of rugby.

  17. Re:Content Delivery System on New iPod Owner Onslaught Overwhelms iTunes · · Score: 2, Informative

    Last I recall the iTunes Store runs on Akamai's EdgeSuite infrastructure - EdgeSuite Delivery and EdgeSuie Enterprise look about right.

  18. Re:Religious fundamentalists on Adult .IE Domain Names Banned As Immoral · · Score: 1

    New Zealand back to the Kiwis I think you'll find you actually mean the Maori, and as it happens they've been doing a lot over the last 20 years to do that. Well, at least address some of the wrong doings. However this is quite off topic. Darn it.

  19. Re:A few random thoughts on Judging The Apple 'Sweatshop' Charge · · Score: 1

    My problem here is the summary kind of gets it wrong - their are two salaries (Nano vs. Shuffle). The Nano people get USD$50/month, including food & housing. The shuffle people get ~USD$100/month, but have to pay half of it back food housing. While obviously $50/month isn't a huge difference, when it doubles your pay I think it might be.

  20. Re:Expensive lunch? on Canadian Record Industry's Secret Lobby Campaign · · Score: 1

    According to wikipedia: "In most English-speaking countries outside North America, an entrée (also known as a 'starter') is a smaller course that precedes the main course." Well there we go, confusion sorted. However my point still stands, if not as well - $22-26 is not a "cheap" lunch (for just the "main", of course there are drinks and what not that'll go rather well on top of that).

  21. Re:Expensive lunch? on Canadian Record Industry's Secret Lobby Campaign · · Score: 1

    You don't consider $22-26 for an entree expensive? Dang. If that's the price of an entree how much is a main? I certainly wish I could afford to eat places like that on a regular basis!

    And no, I don't consider $0.99/track too exepnsive. In fact I think it's just right.

    Having said that the govt holding functions isn't exactly news in itself, but surely CRIA should've been able to fund a little lunch... especially if they wanted something. (Who am I kidding, "if" haha.)

  22. Re:Good news on iTMS Moving Up The Sales Charts · · Score: 1

    Not at all, the previews are 64kbps AAC. The downloads are 128kbps AAC.

  23. Re:Thinking... on Intel PowerBook Rumor Mill · · Score: 1

    According to Mac OS X for UNIX Users, the kernel is based on FreeBSD 5 and Mach 3.0. Which would seem to contradict the parent.

    At the very least there is some argument to say it was based on FreeBSD, and the parent to my orriginal comment seems to have ignored this, as the grandparent of my comment claimed only this.

  24. Re:NO you are WRONG on Sony Rootkit Phones Home · · Score: 1
    In addition, the 'Fair Use' doctrine is U.S. Copyright Law. It is not international copyright law. This is why iTunes is technically illegal in Australia, because it can copy cd's
    Uh. No. iTunes can be used to perform actions that are illegal (copying cds), but since when has this made the product used automatically illegal? So, is my dual cassette deck (that I once owned) illegal as well, becaue it could be used to dub tapes? No? Huh. I know some American law wanted to make technology that could incite people to breach copyright illegal, but I'm pretty sure no such law exists in Australia.
  25. Re:Thinking... on Intel PowerBook Rumor Mill · · Score: 1

    You do realise that darwin is based on FreeBSD, right? That Darwin tends to pickup the changes in FreeBSD? That 10.4 was touted as having the 5.4 changes? Always great to say "except for the fact you have no idea what you're talking about", isn't it.