Why would I want to buy an expensive tablet to use from a cheap desktop? It's cheaper to get high power out of a desktop, and battery life isn't a factor. If my desktop's CPU or RAM becomes insufficient, putting more in is fast and a heck of a lot cheaper than buying a new tablet with the desired specs. Most of what I'd want a tablet for doesn't require high-end CPU or RAM.
They're dead easy to use and are pretty secure when used by people who don't have a clue about computer security. They work very nicely. They're not particularly expensive when compared with comparable Androids, and they tend to be nicer.
I bought a low-end tablet with a large screen because I was getting a lot of letter-sized PDFs and I was getting really tired of reading them on my laptop. For what I wanted it for, it does the job just fine at a reasonable cost. It's also great for the ePub comics I buy now and then. The camera sucks, the sound is bad, and the processing power is unimpressive, but I don't care.
an operating system that doesn't demand you connect a keyboard and mouse to get real work done
How the heck are you supposed to get real work done without a decent keyboard? Why would you expect a tablet to have a decent keyboard built in, that would just get in the way for lots of use cases?
If you want a usable keyboard with your tablet, buy one. They aren't all that expensive, and they're easy to use.
It sounds to me like the closest thing to what you want is a Microsoft Surface running Android or iOS, and they have detachable keyboards you pay additional for.
Apple added some security checks to that version of iOS. It caused some phones that had been broken and had safety feature inadequately restored to stop working. It probably surprised Apple, since they likely didn't predict that people would do that to their phones.
In the one case I have the details of, the third party tech swapped out the fingerprint reader, which is an important part of the security system. Allowing this would allow a quick hardware break of lots of the iPhone security. The owner of the improperly repaired device then didn't do the intelligent thing, which would be to keep the phone in a known usable configuration, but upgraded the iOS version with a possibly broken phone that certainly had broken the warranty..
Do you really expect customers to assess their own risk? Have you read any of the tremendous number of comments on Slashdot on how end users screw things up? Apple considers its customers to be inadequate at assessing their own risks, and they're absolutely right. The result is that using an iDevice is pretty darn safe, and the security is pretty darn good, even for people who haven't done advanced study in computer security. There's obvious disadvantages to Apple's approach, and you don't have to like their tradeoffs, but you should at least consider what Apple is doing and why before condemning them.
Apple doesn't force updates. I tend to keep my iPhones longer than most people, and the last iOS update for them frequently doesn't run well, so I turn them down. No problems. I used the dialog to tell the phone to not install and stop bothering me, and that's just what it did.
Why is it a sad thing that very few people agree with you? There's a lot of things that very few people agree with me on, and I'm fine.
Pretty much everything Apple does is for real benefits, not to screw people over. There's tradeoffs involved, and they get controversial. However, these tradeoffs aren't moral issues. If you don't like Apple, fine. Buy something else. If somebody else does like Apple products, that's their business.
Apple has a list of safety and security features that they're fussy about. There are things you can't do because they'd compromise security.
The "bricking" case you're referring to is a third-party replacement of a security feature. If you could simply swap out the fingerprint reader, you could open up any iPhone you got possession of. Which would you like: easily crackable iPhones, or difficult-to-repair functionality?
I can't speak to the very first ones, but after we got our Mac SE we had no difficulty in mail-ordering the tool. It came free with instructions when we bought a third-party memory upgrade. Once we had the tool, which wasn't fancy, it wasn't difficult to open the toaster Mac and change the memory. While the toasters weren't as easily serviceable or expandable as the Mac II-type designs they sold until going to iMac and MacBook, they weren't bad.
I used to hang around Stack Overflow, mostly answering C++ questions. There were two types of questions I found frustrating. One was the really vague type, usually from someone who wasn't all that good at English. Unfortunately, they tended to compensate for their lack of English communication skills by writing very little, rather than going into details in bad English and erring on the side of saying too much.
The other type was "I want to do a dumb thing, how do I do it?". This was invariably a case of someone having a problem, coming up with a bad idea on how to fix it, and posting problems with their incorrect solution rather than the original problem. In this case, Thanatiel had a problem concerning how to back up a big SD card, came up with a solution that didn't work, and is upset about it.
I'm not really fond of Apple's information flows, but there are better ways to do that, and there's got to be a place or three in Japan where you can get something technical done.
I haven't been involved in soldered-RAM arguments for a few decades, but back then there were advantages in soldering the RAM onto the board rather than providing sockets.
You know what happens when you try solving a problem like this with guns? They arrest you. It turns out that you're the guy committing the violent crime, and even if you have what can be argued to be a legitimate cause, you're going to be convicted and sentenced to years in prison.
If you get more guns to defend yourself against the police or FBI or BATFE or whatever, the government escalates. You're likely to be killed, and if not it's still years in prison. The only way you could defend yourself against arrest is to have a large enough army to give the US military a difficult problem, or to be in some other country without a good extradition treaty.
The ruling was on the basis of existing law. APIs are creative works that are fixed in a tangible form, and are therefore copyrightable. An API is not purely functional when it's created, since there's typically many ways to make one. Asking for a different court ruling is asking for judicial activism. Writing to your representatives in Congress and telling them why APIs should not be copyrightable would be much more productive.
The idea that APIs are copyrightable, but may be used as we normally use them due to fair use, does work.
The defendant would be the company requiring others to break terms of service in exchange for something. It's a messy case, but I wouldn't want to defend myself against such a suit. The damages could be significant, which means lawyers might take the cases on a contingency basis.
Also in the US, if you deliberately get information on my status in any protected category, and deny me the apartment, you're laying yourself open to a lawsuit. It's far safer to make sure you don't get such information.
You're talking about people in general, not the individual person who gets pissed at the situation and takes action. It would take only one person to get the court system involved.
Siri is actually pretty good, and usually understands my request and does something appropriate. Of course, there was that one time in Duluth when I asked Siri to find a restaurant serving fish, and she insisted that the only one was a single restaurant supply store.
I'd have to get the phone in my hands, hit the button, swipe right at the bottom, and touch "Emergency", myself. There are cases, like CPR and arterial bleeding, when those seconds can be important. It wouldn't be important for most first aid situations.
Not necessarily. Help will probably not arrive for minutes, so a short delay to make Siri realize she should call the emergency number wouldn't be that serious. The important thing here is that it's completely hands-free.
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Why would I want to buy an expensive tablet to use from a cheap desktop? It's cheaper to get high power out of a desktop, and battery life isn't a factor. If my desktop's CPU or RAM becomes insufficient, putting more in is fast and a heck of a lot cheaper than buying a new tablet with the desired specs. Most of what I'd want a tablet for doesn't require high-end CPU or RAM.
They're dead easy to use and are pretty secure when used by people who don't have a clue about computer security. They work very nicely. They're not particularly expensive when compared with comparable Androids, and they tend to be nicer.
I bought a low-end tablet with a large screen because I was getting a lot of letter-sized PDFs and I was getting really tired of reading them on my laptop. For what I wanted it for, it does the job just fine at a reasonable cost. It's also great for the ePub comics I buy now and then. The camera sucks, the sound is bad, and the processing power is unimpressive, but I don't care.
How the heck are you supposed to get real work done without a decent keyboard? Why would you expect a tablet to have a decent keyboard built in, that would just get in the way for lots of use cases?
If you want a usable keyboard with your tablet, buy one. They aren't all that expensive, and they're easy to use.
It sounds to me like the closest thing to what you want is a Microsoft Surface running Android or iOS, and they have detachable keyboards you pay additional for.
(d) want to have safe and secure computer operations without having to learn too much about computer security.
Apple added some security checks to that version of iOS. It caused some phones that had been broken and had safety feature inadequately restored to stop working. It probably surprised Apple, since they likely didn't predict that people would do that to their phones.
In the one case I have the details of, the third party tech swapped out the fingerprint reader, which is an important part of the security system. Allowing this would allow a quick hardware break of lots of the iPhone security. The owner of the improperly repaired device then didn't do the intelligent thing, which would be to keep the phone in a known usable configuration, but upgraded the iOS version with a possibly broken phone that certainly had broken the warranty..
Do you really expect customers to assess their own risk? Have you read any of the tremendous number of comments on Slashdot on how end users screw things up? Apple considers its customers to be inadequate at assessing their own risks, and they're absolutely right. The result is that using an iDevice is pretty darn safe, and the security is pretty darn good, even for people who haven't done advanced study in computer security. There's obvious disadvantages to Apple's approach, and you don't have to like their tradeoffs, but you should at least consider what Apple is doing and why before condemning them.
Apple doesn't force updates. I tend to keep my iPhones longer than most people, and the last iOS update for them frequently doesn't run well, so I turn them down. No problems. I used the dialog to tell the phone to not install and stop bothering me, and that's just what it did.
Why is it a sad thing that very few people agree with you? There's a lot of things that very few people agree with me on, and I'm fine.
Pretty much everything Apple does is for real benefits, not to screw people over. There's tradeoffs involved, and they get controversial. However, these tradeoffs aren't moral issues. If you don't like Apple, fine. Buy something else. If somebody else does like Apple products, that's their business.
Apple has a list of safety and security features that they're fussy about. There are things you can't do because they'd compromise security.
The "bricking" case you're referring to is a third-party replacement of a security feature. If you could simply swap out the fingerprint reader, you could open up any iPhone you got possession of. Which would you like: easily crackable iPhones, or difficult-to-repair functionality?
I can't speak to the very first ones, but after we got our Mac SE we had no difficulty in mail-ordering the tool. It came free with instructions when we bought a third-party memory upgrade. Once we had the tool, which wasn't fancy, it wasn't difficult to open the toaster Mac and change the memory. While the toasters weren't as easily serviceable or expandable as the Mac II-type designs they sold until going to iMac and MacBook, they weren't bad.
I used to hang around Stack Overflow, mostly answering C++ questions. There were two types of questions I found frustrating. One was the really vague type, usually from someone who wasn't all that good at English. Unfortunately, they tended to compensate for their lack of English communication skills by writing very little, rather than going into details in bad English and erring on the side of saying too much.
The other type was "I want to do a dumb thing, how do I do it?". This was invariably a case of someone having a problem, coming up with a bad idea on how to fix it, and posting problems with their incorrect solution rather than the original problem. In this case, Thanatiel had a problem concerning how to back up a big SD card, came up with a solution that didn't work, and is upset about it.
I'm not really fond of Apple's information flows, but there are better ways to do that, and there's got to be a place or three in Japan where you can get something technical done.
I haven't been involved in soldered-RAM arguments for a few decades, but back then there were advantages in soldering the RAM onto the board rather than providing sockets.
Northern Ireland is part of the UK still, so it's unclear what you mean by "freedom from the yoke of English tyranny".
You know what happens when you try solving a problem like this with guns? They arrest you. It turns out that you're the guy committing the violent crime, and even if you have what can be argued to be a legitimate cause, you're going to be convicted and sentenced to years in prison.
If you get more guns to defend yourself against the police or FBI or BATFE or whatever, the government escalates. You're likely to be killed, and if not it's still years in prison. The only way you could defend yourself against arrest is to have a large enough army to give the US military a difficult problem, or to be in some other country without a good extradition treaty.
Myst was originally a Hypercard stack. If you know Hypercard, and play the game, you can see that it's compatible.
The ruling was on the basis of existing law. APIs are creative works that are fixed in a tangible form, and are therefore copyrightable. An API is not purely functional when it's created, since there's typically many ways to make one. Asking for a different court ruling is asking for judicial activism. Writing to your representatives in Congress and telling them why APIs should not be copyrightable would be much more productive.
The idea that APIs are copyrightable, but may be used as we normally use them due to fair use, does work.
Assange is not a political refugee. Assange is a fugitive from justice. How does that affect things?
My bad. Thanks for the correction.
The defendant would be the company requiring others to break terms of service in exchange for something. It's a messy case, but I wouldn't want to defend myself against such a suit. The damages could be significant, which means lawyers might take the cases on a contingency basis.
Also in the US, if you deliberately get information on my status in any protected category, and deny me the apartment, you're laying yourself open to a lawsuit. It's far safer to make sure you don't get such information.
You're talking about people in general, not the individual person who gets pissed at the situation and takes action. It would take only one person to get the court system involved.
The important thing was to get her hands doing CPR NOW. If it takes an extra minute to get Siri to call the ambulance, that's lost in the noise.
Siri is actually pretty good, and usually understands my request and does something appropriate. Of course, there was that one time in Duluth when I asked Siri to find a restaurant serving fish, and she insisted that the only one was a single restaurant supply store.
I'd have to get the phone in my hands, hit the button, swipe right at the bottom, and touch "Emergency", myself. There are cases, like CPR and arterial bleeding, when those seconds can be important. It wouldn't be important for most first aid situations.
Not necessarily. Help will probably not arrive for minutes, so a short delay to make Siri realize she should call the emergency number wouldn't be that serious. The important thing here is that it's completely hands-free.