I think you mean "Apple is using the capabilities of the USB spec to ensure that if a device is using Apple's Vendor ID that it is, in fact, an Apple device and will do what you expect it to do when you send commands to it and so on".
To bring it into the real world, Palm is trying to buy beer with a fake ID. Or perhaps since it's not illegal, they're trying to get into a concert with fake tickets. All Apple has done is make sure the checks for fake tickets are a little more careful.
If the lead gets suddenly yanked sideways, they know a car probably just went past. It's the same way they can tell when it;s time to pull the ripcord - just wait for the lead to go slack.
Ford has been doing it in Europe for years - they have class-leading petrols and diesels in the small, medium and estate (station wagon) markets that are not just "ok" - they are genuinely good cars with some excellent engines.
Why they don't sell those in the US, where I thunk Ford cars are the proper joke of shitty engineering, I have no idea.
iTunes will play ogg and flac if you install a quicktime component for it. Just don't expect those files to work on the iPod. If there is enough consumer demand for ogg on the iPod (read: it will increase sales), they will add it.
iTunes does no file conversion before copying audio files to the iPod if it is in a format the iPod can play - AAC and mp3.
"Apple has open sourced libdispatch, also known as Grand Central Dispatch, which is technology in Snow Leopard that makes it easier for developers to take advantage of multi-core parallelism."
First line of THE SUMMARY.
I know it's not hip to RTFA, but it's at least a minimum requirement to read the very next line after the title, even while scrolling down eagerly to make a comment.
Ah, "correcting" grammar that isn't wrong in the first place, at least not in British English.
Although there's no rule that states you can't start sentences with "Ah" it should probably be avoided.
Incidentally, you missed a full stop from your sentence that was entirely enclosed in parentheses, as well as the capital letter that begins a sentence.
So rather than, oh I don't know, do some research on new ways to make roads, you'll just laugh at anyone who attempts to do so because the materials we use right now are so readily destroyed by heavy traffic?
"Super tough clear material" is non specific, but what if it's something based on carbon nano-tech, or based on current plastics but is replaceable like tarmac or concrete on a similar replacement schedule.
You think when Galileo said "hey guys, I've been looking up at the sky a lot lately and it seems to me that the Earth goes around the Sun..." everyone else in the room said "oh man, another laugh out loud moment, this discussion *delivers*!".
Congratulations, you made yourself look like the 16th Century church. Go repress some people and leave/. alone.
If the battery itself is physically damaged (like say a user squashes the screen, like many of these issues seem to go back to) then no amount of "careful monitoring" is going to stop the battery burning.
Lithium batteries like this are highly energy dense things.
So, where is Palm's software to fill in now that Apple are discontinuing support for the PalmOS that Palm has declared dead (but still sells phones with it on)?
Oh right, they discontinued the sync software years ago.
What this article is talking about though, is PalmOS.
This has nothing at all to do with the Palm Pre, which Apple didn't "drop support for" - they never supported it in the first place.
This is about the ability to sync PalmOS based phones, which Apple provided a conduit for since about 10.3 or something, that they are finally dropping support for. 10 years after Palm itself dropped support for it on the Mac incidentally.
I am certain that spoofing Apple's USB vendor ID with the Palm Pre certainly meant that Apple can cease caring whether or not dropping support for PalmOS sync (when Palm itself doesn't provide a way to sync on OS X) will annoy Palm.
Why does it have an obligation to ensure third party products function across OS releases? A third party product, by the way, that doesn't have native sync software because Palm discontinued it. Palm has also said that PalmOS is dead.
They have announced their intention. If Palm want to do something about it, they can release some software to make it all work again.
Nothing stopping Palm releasing software to allow syncing on OS X. They just chose to discontinue it and instead rely on Apple to provide it.
Then went and pissed off Apple with the whole "I'm an iPod really" private USB vendor code spoofing thing.
Doesn't surprise me that Apple are hardly going to concern themselves with syncing with PalmOS - an OS that Palm itself is dead, out of goodwill for Palm.
I dragged my old 15" Powerbook (1Ghz G4) out of retirement to have a look at Ubuntu, and while this may be a totally unfair comparison since the PPC build is hardly going to be the major focus of their optimising, but the PB did run much hotter under Ubuntu than it did under 10.4, and fan control was much less precise. It's not surprising, since Apple made the thing and obviously designed OS X around all the various controllers and sensors in it and Ubuntu has to run on anything you can throw it at, but that would be what I put this down to.
I was not sufficiently experienced at the time to do much to cure it, but I did install some software that had been written to make the fan control better which did help a little to keep it cool, but I'm not sure it would last long away from the power adapter.
Yes, it is. Employer-covered plans are heavily subsidised with group rates, and the costs can still be over $500 per employee.
I personally know several Americans who pay over $1000 per month in premiums (and that doesn't include the cost of drugs or other things that the insurance company won't pay for).
Health insurance is ludicrously expensive in the US.
And, had that happened to you and your daughter here in the UK, you would have received exactly the same care, you just wouldn't have to pay for it, other than through your NI taxes, which are considerably less than US insurance premiums (when the actual cost of the premium is considered).
There are a lot a myths about universal healthcare, all of them regularly circulated by people like Faux News and the right wing shouty talk radio hosts, and Big Pharma and Big Medical who have a vested interest in keeping the US system the way it is.
The myth that doctors, nurses, researchers and other medical professions under a Universal system don't get paid properly for their "trade" (in the UK, doctors are handsomely paid for their work) is a total lie. The myth that "the government decides whether you get treated" is also an utter fabrication.
I am very sorry your daughter died and that sometimes, even with the current advances in medicine, that people sometimes can't be saved, but universal care is not the demon that the bought-and-paid for interests in the US advertise it as.
Exactly. That's what Android is for. If the iPhone doesn't work for you, you won't use it.
What a lot of people moan about though, is how they love the iPhone (or just want the iPhone) and think that Apple is compelled to make it into something it's not to suit them.
In essense that's sort of what my point is. On/. though, whenever something like this is raised, parallels are always drawn between MS and Apple in a "If MS did this, everyone would be crying about it!" or even that monopoly concerns should apply where they clearly do not.
I have an iPhone myself and there is plenty to criticise about it - I don't like some of the app store policies and some of the design decisions, but overall I like it.
What I object to, is when people complain about how locked down and controlling and closed the iPhone platform and app store is, as if it's some great surprise that they suddenly found out every time it happens. That's not to say criticism itself is wrong.
Edit: I should have added that some current "edit" formats are based on H.264 and Mpeg2 - HDV and XDCAM HD, for example, are both based on MPEG2 and you can edit them natively with certain software (Final Cut Pro, for example). I wouldn't like to edit an MPEG2 clip that had been encoded for DVD, however, although it is possible.
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I think you mean "Apple is using the capabilities of the USB spec to ensure that if a device is using Apple's Vendor ID that it is, in fact, an Apple device and will do what you expect it to do when you send commands to it and so on".
To bring it into the real world, Palm is trying to buy beer with a fake ID. Or perhaps since it's not illegal, they're trying to get into a concert with fake tickets. All Apple has done is make sure the checks for fake tickets are a little more careful.
No, no they're not.
They're not even a monopoly in the cell phone market.
If the lead gets suddenly yanked sideways, they know a car probably just went past. It's the same way they can tell when it;s time to pull the ripcord - just wait for the lead to go slack.
Ford has been doing it in Europe for years - they have class-leading petrols and diesels in the small, medium and estate (station wagon) markets that are not just "ok" - they are genuinely good cars with some excellent engines.
Why they don't sell those in the US, where I thunk Ford cars are the proper joke of shitty engineering, I have no idea.
The "premium" was to update any tracks you previously bought that had DRM on them.
All new stuff that you buy since the change has no DRM and is the same price. There's no premium for buying DRM free.
iTunes will play ogg and flac if you install a quicktime component for it. Just don't expect those files to work on the iPod. If there is enough consumer demand for ogg on the iPod (read: it will increase sales), they will add it.
iTunes does no file conversion before copying audio files to the iPod if it is in a format the iPod can play - AAC and mp3.
"Apple has open sourced libdispatch, also known as Grand Central Dispatch, which is technology in Snow Leopard that makes it easier for developers to take advantage of multi-core parallelism."
First line of THE SUMMARY.
I know it's not hip to RTFA, but it's at least a minimum requirement to read the very next line after the title, even while scrolling down eagerly to make a comment.
Ah, "correcting" grammar that isn't wrong in the first place, at least not in British English.
Although there's no rule that states you can't start sentences with "Ah" it should probably be avoided.
Incidentally, you missed a full stop from your sentence that was entirely enclosed in parentheses, as well as the capital letter that begins a sentence.
So rather than, oh I don't know, do some research on new ways to make roads, you'll just laugh at anyone who attempts to do so because the materials we use right now are so readily destroyed by heavy traffic?
"Super tough clear material" is non specific, but what if it's something based on carbon nano-tech, or based on current plastics but is replaceable like tarmac or concrete on a similar replacement schedule.
You think when Galileo said "hey guys, I've been looking up at the sky a lot lately and it seems to me that the Earth goes around the Sun..." everyone else in the room said "oh man, another laugh out loud moment, this discussion *delivers*!".
Congratulations, you made yourself look like the 16th Century church. Go repress some people and leave /. alone.
No, everything runs on Linux. ;)
If the battery itself is physically damaged (like say a user squashes the screen, like many of these issues seem to go back to) then no amount of "careful monitoring" is going to stop the battery burning.
Lithium batteries like this are highly energy dense things.
So, where is Palm's software to fill in now that Apple are discontinuing support for the PalmOS that Palm has declared dead (but still sells phones with it on)?
Oh right, they discontinued the sync software years ago.
What this article is talking about though, is PalmOS.
This has nothing at all to do with the Palm Pre, which Apple didn't "drop support for" - they never supported it in the first place.
This is about the ability to sync PalmOS based phones, which Apple provided a conduit for since about 10.3 or something, that they are finally dropping support for. 10 years after Palm itself dropped support for it on the Mac incidentally.
I am certain that spoofing Apple's USB vendor ID with the Palm Pre certainly meant that Apple can cease caring whether or not dropping support for PalmOS sync (when Palm itself doesn't provide a way to sync on OS X) will annoy Palm.
Why does it have an obligation to ensure third party products function across OS releases? A third party product, by the way, that doesn't have native sync software because Palm discontinued it. Palm has also said that PalmOS is dead.
They have announced their intention. If Palm want to do something about it, they can release some software to make it all work again.
Nothing stopping Palm releasing software to allow syncing on OS X. They just chose to discontinue it and instead rely on Apple to provide it.
Then went and pissed off Apple with the whole "I'm an iPod really" private USB vendor code spoofing thing.
Doesn't surprise me that Apple are hardly going to concern themselves with syncing with PalmOS - an OS that Palm itself is dead, out of goodwill for Palm.
If Palm want a way to sync on OS X they should write the software themselves. Oh wait, they did and discontinued it.
Well, you're season 4 B5 - where that quote is followed by Ivanonva's "...it failed".
Well, it is a rule, but it is the exact opposite of the US way, hence the style issue.
If you follow the British rules you must put the full stop outside unless the entire sentence is a quote.
I dragged my old 15" Powerbook (1Ghz G4) out of retirement to have a look at Ubuntu, and while this may be a totally unfair comparison since the PPC build is hardly going to be the major focus of their optimising, but the PB did run much hotter under Ubuntu than it did under 10.4, and fan control was much less precise. It's not surprising, since Apple made the thing and obviously designed OS X around all the various controllers and sensors in it and Ubuntu has to run on anything you can throw it at, but that would be what I put this down to.
I was not sufficiently experienced at the time to do much to cure it, but I did install some software that had been written to make the fan control better which did help a little to keep it cool, but I'm not sure it would last long away from the power adapter.
Yes, it is. Employer-covered plans are heavily subsidised with group rates, and the costs can still be over $500 per employee.
I personally know several Americans who pay over $1000 per month in premiums (and that doesn't include the cost of drugs or other things that the insurance company won't pay for).
Health insurance is ludicrously expensive in the US.
And, had that happened to you and your daughter here in the UK, you would have received exactly the same care, you just wouldn't have to pay for it, other than through your NI taxes, which are considerably less than US insurance premiums (when the actual cost of the premium is considered).
There are a lot a myths about universal healthcare, all of them regularly circulated by people like Faux News and the right wing shouty talk radio hosts, and Big Pharma and Big Medical who have a vested interest in keeping the US system the way it is.
The myth that doctors, nurses, researchers and other medical professions under a Universal system don't get paid properly for their "trade" (in the UK, doctors are handsomely paid for their work) is a total lie. The myth that "the government decides whether you get treated" is also an utter fabrication.
I am very sorry your daughter died and that sometimes, even with the current advances in medicine, that people sometimes can't be saved, but universal care is not the demon that the bought-and-paid for interests in the US advertise it as.
Wow, who thought facts could be modded "troll"?
I guess it's cool to hate the truth these days.
Exactly. That's what Android is for. If the iPhone doesn't work for you, you won't use it.
What a lot of people moan about though, is how they love the iPhone (or just want the iPhone) and think that Apple is compelled to make it into something it's not to suit them.
In essense that's sort of what my point is. On /. though, whenever something like this is raised, parallels are always drawn between MS and Apple in a "If MS did this, everyone would be crying about it!" or even that monopoly concerns should apply where they clearly do not.
I have an iPhone myself and there is plenty to criticise about it - I don't like some of the app store policies and some of the design decisions, but overall I like it.
What I object to, is when people complain about how locked down and controlling and closed the iPhone platform and app store is, as if it's some great surprise that they suddenly found out every time it happens. That's not to say criticism itself is wrong.
Edit: I should have added that some current "edit" formats are based on H.264 and Mpeg2 - HDV and XDCAM HD, for example, are both based on MPEG2 and you can edit them natively with certain software (Final Cut Pro, for example). I wouldn't like to edit an MPEG2 clip that had been encoded for DVD, however, although it is possible.