"For reading through the 1,000+ technical papers I have in Papers, plus the dozen books I have in PDF"
As a scientist, the iPad is one of the greatest things to happen to computers in a long time. Having a library of papers and technical documentation including all your highlighting and notes with you, in a small, light, convenient package is invaluable.
Well, you don't have to worry about it. Most of them are pure vapour, and the rest of them appear to have been thoroughly trashed by reviewers and are unlikely ever to bother you by appearing in a store where you might accidentally purchase them.
There is no su in stock iOS. One of the first things most jailbreaks install is a bunch of basic UNIX utilities. I don't think su is even in the basic set - you have to go into Cydia and install another utility package to get it.
"let's bring back the old dialer viruses and have your phone call a 10$/minute hotline every night for an hour."
We can only hope. A widespread outbreak of something like that might encourage the phone companies to do something about that stupidity. I discovered that if you accidentally text a landline with my carrier, some third party will text you back (how did they even find out who I'm texting!?) and offer to deliver the message for you. In English, French and Spanish. A couple of times, just in case you missed one of the first three texts. At a dollar a text.
You can still jailbreak - you just need to download an app to do it over USB now (just like you did before). Sure it's slightly less convenient, but it's a whole lot more secure.
Apple didn't block jailbreaking, they blocked a remote exploit that was used as one method of jailbreaking.
I was once at a conference with my masters supervisor. I needed to demo something at one of the sessions so I asked him if I could borrow his notebook. He agreed, and I went to the session. Right before I popped open the notebook to set up the demo. Full screen in dripping sticky colour was the porn he'd been watching the night before.
There are more reasons for porn mode than hiding it from your wife. One of them is the same reason why you don't leave Hustler on the coffee table when you've got company over.
Mozilla might be pitching it as privacy protection on the web side, but there's a reason "privacy mode" has been better known as "porn mode" since it's introduction.
"Jackson said most users see that as the biggest attraction to private mode."
Nonsense. The biggest attraction of private mode is that hotteennymphosexkittens.com doesn't show up in the suggestions when someone borrows your computer to check Hotmail.
If you want real privacy you shouldn't be trusting a web browser privacy mode.
Put an iPad in an Otter case and it's considerably more durable than any book. And still lighter than the paper versions of a few of the ones I carry around on it.
What do you mean by computing? My iPad is running a full UNIX shell, a python interpreter and talks to the eight core machine in the lab that does the heavy lifting.
Once the device becomes very common it might be easier to actually pass them off, or accumulate a pile of them. Why send you something I'm looking at if I've already got it up, loaded and showing what I want on a portable screen I can just hand to you? Sure, I'm not going to walk all the way up from engineering just for that, but if I have to go to the bridge anyway....
And the pile on the desk is perfectly understandable. If someone else were buying the iPads I'd have a pile of them too - each one displaying a different bit of information I was using.
Use the correct terms. It sounds pseudo-popular psychological. An intellectual is not someone who pretends to think, or writes drivel to make people think he thinks.
Rights are inherent and not given or allowed by any government. Nor are laws enumerations on these rights.
I thought that was the whole point of the Magna Carta and the American Revolution.
Haven't travelled much, hey? Rights are a uniquely human invention, and they are given by whoever is in charge and can be taken away by the same entity. In a democracy citizens nominally decide what rights they want to grant themselves and what rights to grant non-citizens (usually not exactly the same list). Sometimes they decide some rights are important enough to try and get other people to agree to as well.
Note that the Magna Carta was basically an agreement giving the English aristocracy some ability (rights, if you like) to limit the king's power. The commoners didn't really get any rights. Ditto with the US bill of rights - it gave citizens certain rights, but did squat for non-citizens (such as slaves). And neither of those apply to any society (such as Saudi Arabia) that isn't descended from the UK.
The idea of "inalienable" rights is ridiculous. No society has ever granted the same rights to all people, and certainly not at all times. The US itself only grants many rights to citizens or legal residents, and sometimes doesn't even respect the ones the UN says are basic human rights.
I'm not an American, but if the authorities wanted access to some blackberry messages, and could show probable cause, would they not just have to get a warrant? RIM, since they have significant assets in the US, would have to comply.
That may be, but the data the original poster posted does not seem to support that conclusion. If you have some useful information about that data then please share.
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"For reading through the 1,000+ technical papers I have in Papers, plus the dozen books I have in PDF"
As a scientist, the iPad is one of the greatest things to happen to computers in a long time. Having a library of papers and technical documentation including all your highlighting and notes with you, in a small, light, convenient package is invaluable.
"I'm convinced that "being easy to use, being polished, and being better" in terms of usability DOES get you very far."
In what other terms would you evaluate a UI?
I see the anti-Apple mods have been through here. Too bad they weren't a little slower - a +5 Flamebait is always entertaining.
Because that's the only kind of creation you can do, obviously.
Have you ever tried opening an 800 MB Photoshop file on a computer from the late nineties? I guess nobody did any creating until 2000 though, right?
People who don't own iPads.
And the ones that don't have a question mark have an "Engaget reviewed it and wasn't impressed."
Well, you don't have to worry about it. Most of them are pure vapour, and the rest of them appear to have been thoroughly trashed by reviewers and are unlikely ever to bother you by appearing in a store where you might accidentally purchase them.
There is no su in stock iOS. One of the first things most jailbreaks install is a bunch of basic UNIX utilities. I don't think su is even in the basic set - you have to go into Cydia and install another utility package to get it.
"let's bring back the old dialer viruses and have your phone call a 10$/minute hotline every night for an hour."
We can only hope. A widespread outbreak of something like that might encourage the phone companies to do something about that stupidity. I discovered that if you accidentally text a landline with my carrier, some third party will text you back (how did they even find out who I'm texting!?) and offer to deliver the message for you. In English, French and Spanish. A couple of times, just in case you missed one of the first three texts. At a dollar a text.
Oh? Let's see -
"Feature phones" - often have to be hacked just to allow things like loading your own ringtones and sometimes free access to your own pictures.
Android - often requires rooting just to keep the OS up to date.
Blackberry - I don't know how hackable they are, or need to be, but everyone I know who has one hates the UI and wants an Android or iPhone.
You can still jailbreak - you just need to download an app to do it over USB now (just like you did before). Sure it's slightly less convenient, but it's a whole lot more secure.
Apple didn't block jailbreaking, they blocked a remote exploit that was used as one method of jailbreaking.
I was once at a conference with my masters supervisor. I needed to demo something at one of the sessions so I asked him if I could borrow his notebook. He agreed, and I went to the session. Right before I popped open the notebook to set up the demo. Full screen in dripping sticky colour was the porn he'd been watching the night before.
There are more reasons for porn mode than hiding it from your wife. One of them is the same reason why you don't leave Hustler on the coffee table when you've got company over.
Mozilla might be pitching it as privacy protection on the web side, but there's a reason "privacy mode" has been better known as "porn mode" since it's introduction.
"Jackson said most users see that as the biggest attraction to private mode."
Nonsense. The biggest attraction of private mode is that hotteennymphosexkittens.com doesn't show up in the suggestions when someone borrows your computer to check Hotmail.
If you want real privacy you shouldn't be trusting a web browser privacy mode.
It's designed to be just that - an applicance. But underneath it is a full featured UNIX machine, if you so desire.
Put an iPad in an Otter case and it's considerably more durable than any book. And still lighter than the paper versions of a few of the ones I carry around on it.
What do you mean by computing? My iPad is running a full UNIX shell, a python interpreter and talks to the eight core machine in the lab that does the heavy lifting.
Once the device becomes very common it might be easier to actually pass them off, or accumulate a pile of them. Why send you something I'm looking at if I've already got it up, loaded and showing what I want on a portable screen I can just hand to you? Sure, I'm not going to walk all the way up from engineering just for that, but if I have to go to the bridge anyway....
And the pile on the desk is perfectly understandable. If someone else were buying the iPads I'd have a pile of them too - each one displaying a different bit of information I was using.
Use the correct terms. It sounds pseudo-popular psychological. An intellectual is not someone who pretends to think, or writes drivel to make people think he thinks.
Are you a little defensive? I was replying to a poster talking about the maintenance schedule on his hybrid.
Let's see, is anything from your post relevant? Fuel economy? Nope. Resale price? Nope.
That sounds very much like the maintenance schedule on my all-fossil fuel Mazda 3.
Haven't travelled much, hey? Rights are a uniquely human invention, and they are given by whoever is in charge and can be taken away by the same entity. In a democracy citizens nominally decide what rights they want to grant themselves and what rights to grant non-citizens (usually not exactly the same list). Sometimes they decide some rights are important enough to try and get other people to agree to as well.
Note that the Magna Carta was basically an agreement giving the English aristocracy some ability (rights, if you like) to limit the king's power. The commoners didn't really get any rights. Ditto with the US bill of rights - it gave citizens certain rights, but did squat for non-citizens (such as slaves). And neither of those apply to any society (such as Saudi Arabia) that isn't descended from the UK.
The idea of "inalienable" rights is ridiculous. No society has ever granted the same rights to all people, and certainly not at all times. The US itself only grants many rights to citizens or legal residents, and sometimes doesn't even respect the ones the UN says are basic human rights.
I'm not an American, but if the authorities wanted access to some blackberry messages, and could show probable cause, would they not just have to get a warrant? RIM, since they have significant assets in the US, would have to comply.
That may be, but the data the original poster posted does not seem to support that conclusion. If you have some useful information about that data then please share.
You're aware the topic is Apple computers, right? Not iPhones?