Add in the possibility of a serious TCP fungal infection and a rabid IPSec inhibitor and there will be chaso! Chaos I tells you! The sky will burn and the heavens fall in! All because of some acronyms I don't understand that I repeated in a slashdot posting. The seas will boil! Cats will have sex with dogs and the world will end!
GNU/FSF and FOSS in general produce some very nice software and in the former's case do a good job of promoting the philosophy behind it. As a result, I send them money to support them.
However as I've yet to see a FOSS project produce a single original piece of work, let alone a appliance like the iPhone then I am quite happy to accept the compromise that I do in buying a "closed" appliance like the iPhone. In fact for devices like a phone I prefer it to be closed and controlled because the advantages (it just works) are exactly what I want and the downsides (oh noes you can't programme it! Well actually I can, but I don't want to have to).
No. And perhaps if you did some basic research instead of blindly regurgitating what someone clever said in the hopes of seeming clever yourself then you'd know why.
I assume you have some evidence that Apple has tried this trick in the past, i.e. deliberately made a change to break a third party app? And no, a third party app that's broken because it used an unpublished API doesn't count.
Or did you just pull that comment out of your arse?
Updating requires active intervention by you i.e. you click a button in iTunes and it downloads the update and then applies it to your iPhone. Exactly the same as iPod updates. You don't update your iPhone directly.
I could buy a lot of paperbacks for the same money.
There's no restriction on the books I can read. First the book has to have been scanned and then it needs to be available in a format the ebook reader understand. In contrast to a book which just has to be in a language I understand.
I don't mind leaving read novels behind when I've been on holiday in order to save weight.
I can lend books to family and friends.
Books don't need batteries.
In contrast I can only see one advantage, although a big one, in using an ebook reader:
A loaded ebook reader weighs much less than the equivalent stack of paperbacks.
Your argument is idiotic. Exactly the same could be said about any modern government. "You have no lawful authority and you can only enforce it because you have the power to do so." Well duh.
The only thing? What bollocks. It's not even the best thing.
Not having sex when you are HIV positive is even more proof than a condom. Getting rid of most of the current rulers in Africa who seem to believe there is no link between HIV and AIDS, especially Tabo Umbeki, would also help a lot.
The Templars were under the direct authority of the Pope: if when he said they're disbanded then disbanded they are. The Templars also took a vow of obedience to the Pope so if the Pope told them to disband themselves, then disband themselves they must.
It is of course all a complete nonsense: it would be interesting to know what they are really after.
Wake me up when *any* Mac actually gets taken over in the wild, or gets a virus or any other kind of malware that is specific to it (social engineering attacks for example don't count)
This is a complete nonsense. Just because some set of pillocks (Paris Hilton, Jordan, everyone on Big Brother) gives up their privacy or Google decides to build a business invading people's privacy doesn't take away my right to it.
I hope the Court gives Google a big punch in the face in the form of an exemplary fine.
How can a post that asks a questions (and a bad question at that: OSX doesn't check for any Apple hardware) be "Interesting".
I look forward to metamoderating these people.
I'd have to disagree. As an agnostic I find the majority of slashdot posters to be vitriolically anti-Christian.
There's a fanatical religion present on Slashdot: atheism. But that shouldn't be a surprise, rebellion against "the man" is the norm for teenagers and opinions are always firmly held.
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And yet, here you are posting in a thread that has nothing to do with Linux or Windows.
It's an outrage that you could suggest he might!
The only spin involved was your attempt to combine two separate events.
Or you could be talking out of your arse.
Many words: there are better ways to handle rentals, including those already implemented in iTunes, Apple TV and *gasp* the iPhone.
GNU/FSF and FOSS in general produce some very nice software and in the former's case do a good job of promoting the philosophy behind it. As a result, I send them money to support them.
However as I've yet to see a FOSS project produce a single original piece of work, let alone a appliance like the iPhone then I am quite happy to accept the compromise that I do in buying a "closed" appliance like the iPhone. In fact for devices like a phone I prefer it to be closed and controlled because the advantages (it just works) are exactly what I want and the downsides (oh noes you can't programme it! Well actually I can, but I don't want to have to).
For the benefit of the purchasers of I Am Rich & StandardUser79: the iPhone does that.
No. And perhaps if you did some basic research instead of blindly regurgitating what someone clever said in the hopes of seeming clever yourself then you'd know why.
I always enjoy old adages being proved right. In this case "A fool and his money are soon parted."
I just wish I'd been the one to think of marketing an app to the terminally stupid.
Unless they're going to produce a "disabled apps" page for each individuals iPhone then of course this wouldn't allow them to do that.
Or did you just pull that comment out of your arse?
Updating requires active intervention by you i.e. you click a button in iTunes and it downloads the update and then applies it to your iPhone. Exactly the same as iPod updates. You don't update your iPhone directly.
I believe corporately that's true. But as individuals they are subject to all the same laws.
In contrast I can only see one advantage, although a big one, in using an ebook reader:
So you've just multiplied both the development effort and the testing effort required.
Actually that's an excellent reason not to do it.
Your argument is idiotic. Exactly the same could be said about any modern government. "You have no lawful authority and you can only enforce it because you have the power to do so." Well duh.
The only thing? What bollocks. It's not even the best thing. Not having sex when you are HIV positive is even more proof than a condom. Getting rid of most of the current rulers in Africa who seem to believe there is no link between HIV and AIDS, especially Tabo Umbeki, would also help a lot.
It is of course all a complete nonsense: it would be interesting to know what they are really after.
Where oh where are my mod points when I need them! First post in a long time that's had me shedding tears of laughter.
Actually no. SQLServer 2000's mail integration is synchronous so if the mail server is down it hangs the database. Good one eh!
Until then these stories are just one big yawn.
I hope the Court gives Google a big punch in the face in the form of an exemplary fine.
How can a post that asks a questions (and a bad question at that: OSX doesn't check for any Apple hardware) be "Interesting". I look forward to metamoderating these people.
How are a bunch of questions that could have been answered by the documentation, if goombah99 wasn't too fucking lazy, in any way "interesting".
There's a fanatical religion present on Slashdot: atheism. But that shouldn't be a surprise, rebellion against "the man" is the norm for teenagers and opinions are always firmly held.