Supposed to and reality are two different things. In particular, non-admin users like my parents don't have access to copy to Applications, so they have indeed launched apps directly from the downloaded.dmg file.
Check what you're replying to. This wasn't about jailbreaking iOS, it was about allowing apps from unverified 3rd party sources to be installed onto the next release of Mac OS X. No warranty is voided.
And even on iOS, if a jailbreak or jailbroken app borks the device, you can just restore the Apple-approved firmware. Apple just won't do warranty work on a system that comes in jailbroken.
Innovation: "the creation of better or more effective products, processes, services, technologies, or ideas that are accepted by markets, governments, and society"
The original iPod was most definitely innovative. Marketing aside, three technical reasons why it succeeded: - Firewire, so transferring 5GB of data would take minutes, not hours. AFAIK no other player was using even USB2 yet. - smallest (physical) HDD available at the time. - uncomplicated user interface driven by scroll wheel with minimal buttons
Everything is built or inspired from what came before, so while these technologies may have existed independently in other devices or for other purposes, integrating them into a single device for portable music easily fits the definition of innovation.
In other words, they were going to be "fired" anyway. Of course they weren't content, but this particular action was not in direct response to poor working conditions.
[Bill] Clennett can't remember if Chretien hurt him with the choke hold because it all happened so fast. But he did end up breaking the crown on a tooth during the scuffle.
While he initially hesitated, Clennett says he took the money in order to buy an ad in the local French newspaper Le Droit, criticizing the Liberal government.
Even the aggressor/victim says the RCMP came to him and offered to pay. Clennett never even filed a lawsuit. How very Canadian of both the RCMP and Clennett.
Of course someone ordered the RCMP to make the offer, but that's a far cry from the implied "required by a court", and Chretien wasn't personally required to pay.
Perhaps you'd like to look into the aftermath a bit closer?
Let's not forget Darth Jean(Chretien), [...] that he's actually choked people publicly
Do not forget *why* that happened. At a public outdoor event, his protection detail failed to prevent a lone protester getting in his face to begin with. Maybe Chretien could have just shoved him in the chest, but as the leader of a nation his personal security perimeter was breached, and he was justified in literally taking matters in his own hands.
I would say the same if Harper found himself in the same situation, except Harper tolerates no protests in his vicinity. Give Chretien credit, at least he wasn't afraid to approach a line of protesters in a public venue.
One of the (many) reasons carriers are disliked is BECAUSE they supplied their own branded devices, with crippled or "extra charge" features (bluetooth, wifi), preloaded crudware, and sometimes linked an easily-hit physical key to launch the crappy browser and suck down a few kilobytes of data on a plan without data, just to charge a measly extra $2 and hope the customer feels it's not worth the effort to waste an hour on the phone to contest it. At least this is how things were in the US and Canada, don't know about the rest of the world.
The iPhone broke that stranglehold by denying AT&T and later carrier partners the ability to brand it and pre-install their junk. You are correct that with Android, the carriers now have more power than ever before to supply their branded "offerings", and that the carriers will get more money from this strategy (at initial sale, anyway; but I'll bet the support calls alone will eat into a lot of the per-unit profits). But I would bet that Apple does not lose much sleep over this, and they've already considered and factored it in to their long-term strategy.
You were doing great until you pulled the "Columbia disaster due to environmentalists" card.
According to the Columbia Accident Investigation Board report, Columbia's tank, ET-93, was built before the new environmental regulations came into play. ET-93 used the old CFC-11 foam.
So, now that you know they were using the old CFC-using foam, and the "tree huggers" had nothing to do with it, how does that change your feelings about Columbia?
Addendum to my post: it was not meant to excuse the fact that management issues were largely responsible for the Challenger and Columbia disasters, whereas the earlier malfunctions were technical or the result or not following procedure (IIRC Apollo 13's cryo tank was dropped just an inch or two during command module assembly, and they failed notice the replacement was a newer unit was built to updated electrical spec for later command modules, so the tank's internal temperature sensor got fried and couldn't warn the crew that it was burning off the insulation off the oxygen tank's internal wiring).
NASA manned spacecraft will never get safer or less expensive, thanks to the way it's (not properly) funded and (not really) supported by the American people and the politicians they vote in. Designing rockets by committee and political compromise, as you noted, is a recipe for disaster.
But, you're mixing metrics when you say we lost 2 shuttles and 14 crew in 50 flights over the 30 year history of shuttle operations. Within that 30 years there were 135 launches, two of which ended in disaster. I have no idea where you got "in 50 flights" from; even between Challenger and Columbia there were 86 successful launches--which rounds closer to 100 than 50.
By contrast, and this is not to diminish the actual loss of crew and vehicles with the shuttle, there were 29 manned US missions prior to the shuttle: 6 Mercury, 10 Gemini, and 13 Apollo. No in-flight deaths, but Apollo 13 came close, and Gemini 8 had major in-flight emergency as well. That's 2 major malfunctions in 29 flights (3 in 30 if you count Apollo 1), compared to 2 in 135 shuttle flights, despite the shuttle being a far more complex system.
Concur that the 4S isn't that hot on battery life. I could go 2 full days using my old 3GS, but after day 1 on my 4S it's just a bit below 50% and I won't risk it dying in the middle of day 2. I'm not even using the whiz-bang features like Siri much.
It could just be iOS5 though--after updating my 3GS it was no longer able to last two days of usage, either.
People mocked Apple for not including 4G in the iPhone 4S, but your experience, and that of the entire article, seems to validate their position: 4G technology just isn't power-efficient enough (YET) to include without forcing Apple to either include a much bigger (heavier, bulkier) battery, or cut their estimated usage time significantly.
The competition pushed the "bigger screen = better" in part because it's a genuinely requested feature, but the unspoken reason was to hide the fact a bigger battery was needed to drive the 4G electronics--and obviously it's *still* not enough. It's certainly not your display that's sucking battery life--despite the 4.27" screen the Thunderbolt has less than 2/3 the pixels the iPhone 4 and 4S has.
The fact you're on coast-to-coast flights (5-ish hours) should actually *increase* battery life for that charge, since you're in airplane mode and it's not hunting for cell or wifi signals.
You're probably watching video or playing games more during the flight than you'd be running around on the ground of course, but I'm amazed how little battery is used when I watch an hour-long show on my iPhone while on the gym machines--less than 5% drained. For comparison, browsing the web or using Facebook for 30 minutes on the bus will eat 10%.
Reading comprehension fail--or you rushed to post based only on the title. "Patent" didn't appear once in the summary since there's nothing to do with them, this is purely a trademark dispute.
If they only Darwin'ed themselves by hitting trees, that's one thing.
Unfortunately, Darwin doesn't discriminate between the idiot texting while driving on an undivided highway, and the family of four that he/she hits when he crosses the center line.
Re: numbers... I saw that from the Android screenshots but didn't know that's how they're invoked. I can see how that's fine for one-off numbers, but if you were typing a phone number for example surely you'd still want to switch to a proper row of numbers rather than hold each letter/number key to type the number? Or is the pause before it switches to a number that brief?
To clarify: on an iPhone if you hold down a *specific* letter that's known to have accents, those accents appear above the letter and you slide your finger over to select one. Holding "e" reveals éèêë etc, holding down "a" reveals áàâä etc.
3: On Android if there's multiple suggested corrections I assume the first on the list is auto-selected if you just hit space? Yes multiple suggestions up front would be nice. It does this with Chinese character input so it's not a foreign concept to Apple.
BTW on the iPhone the after-the-fact suggestion bubble for also lists multiple suggestions horizontally, not vertically.
4. It's possible you tried just tapping to position the cursor, instead of press and hold. It only takes 1/5 a second for the magnifier to come up, but a tap and immediate release places it either at the start or end of a word.
The arrow keys on Swype sound useful. My take on why Apple doesn't include it, is that they've previously thrown out old ideas to force people to adapt to new technology and UI. The original 1984 Mac keyboards had no arrow keys either, forcing the user to learn to use the mouse, then a radical concept for consumers. After people got used to it (or enough people complained), they eventually added arrow keys back in. Then there's the original iMac which dropped all legacy ports, and the iPhone which completely did away with the desktop metaphor.
The decade-long failure of Windows tablets to gain traction with consumers suggests that including legacy input methods and UI paradigms just means normal people won't bother learning the new ones. Of course maybe there just weren't sufficient advantages with the new methods for the average user to learn them.
5. Yes, once/if we put the time in we should be proficient in either system.
Don't know where the heck you're sourcing your jerseys that they're $350, I got my NHL hockey team's jersey on sale for $75, they're regularly $120-150 depending on style and whether a player's name and number is stitched on.
Yes, they're official. They don't get any more official than the team's store in their own arena.
1 and 2: Are you using a custom keyboard on your Android? A Google image search on "android keyboard" suggests a button push is needed for numbers and punctuation too. I'll need to play with a co-worker's Android phone tomorrow to see for myself...
Double-space does type a period and space. That's just something that comes with experience. I see many Android keyboards come with comma and period on either side of the space key, that's not a bad idea.
Special characters: I assume you mean brackets, parentheses, etc and not accent characters (which on the iPhone you just hold the key for a moment, and all possible accents pop up as options). It's not obvious from the image search I mentioned, how else do you type these on your Android?
The iPhone was my first cell phone and thumb-typing device. It all came naturally to me within an hour.
3. iOS 5 has some of those autocorrect features: it gives you the word it'll replace it with if you hit space or any punctuation, but no alternatives. If you tap that or any word it thinks is mis-spelled it usually gives you alternatives and corrects-in-place (actually this annoys the hell out of me, I usually want to manually correct a single missing letter, so I tap at the end of the word and start typing, but the entire word was selected for correct-in-place so my typing replaces it entirely). It kind of has the backspace-to-undo-autocorrect, but you have to select the "wrong" spelling from a popup bubble.
Auto-correct now also recognizes when you meant to type multiple words. I just typed "briwncdog" and it AC'ed to "brown dog". That's come in handy a number of times.
4. iOS gives you a movable text cursor too, which I think is analogous to the marker you mentioned--just tap and hold on the anywhere in the text field (not just over the word you want) and a magnifier appears to help position the cursor. Lack of arrow keys is occasionally annoying, but with limited screen space I get that they can't put one in, nor should they have (essentially waste 2 button areas for left/right, but any time you're moving more than a couple characters the touch-select is faster anyway). Lack of a forward-delete option is annoying though; Apple could easily add one by holding shift before pressing backspace to "reverse" its direction.
5. Not enough experience with swype to say if I like it or not. Played with it about five minutes, wasn't enough time to re-train my brain to "type" words out using just one thumb, it kept twitching to the letters it would be expecting to type had the other thumb been in play.
"Society" isn't recognizing you as an engineer, your employer is. The governing bodies that accredit engineers probably won't make too much of a fuss over a "software engineer" (they will for large organizations: in parts of Canada Microsoft is forbidden from spelling out what "MCSE" and similar certifications mean) but you can bet they'll be on someone like a ton of bricks if they're working in a civil or mechanical engineering capacity without proper accreditation.
Engineer and doctor are both protected terms in many places, and you cannot hold either title (i.e. on a business card) without accreditation from respective authorities. Misrepresenting yourself as an engineer won't get you more than a lawsuit and fine, but misrepresenting yourself as a doctor can get you jail time.
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Obviously, they need SOPA to force other registrars to do what GoDaddy happily does without question.
Supposed to and reality are two different things. In particular, non-admin users like my parents don't have access to copy to Applications, so they have indeed launched apps directly from the downloaded .dmg file.
Check what you're replying to. This wasn't about jailbreaking iOS, it was about allowing apps from unverified 3rd party sources to be installed onto the next release of Mac OS X. No warranty is voided.
And even on iOS, if a jailbreak or jailbroken app borks the device, you can just restore the Apple-approved firmware. Apple just won't do warranty work on a system that comes in jailbroken.
Innovation: "the creation of better or more effective products, processes, services, technologies, or ideas that are accepted by markets, governments, and society"
The original iPod was most definitely innovative. Marketing aside, three technical reasons why it succeeded:
- Firewire, so transferring 5GB of data would take minutes, not hours. AFAIK no other player was using even USB2 yet.
- smallest (physical) HDD available at the time.
- uncomplicated user interface driven by scroll wheel with minimal buttons
Everything is built or inspired from what came before, so while these technologies may have existed independently in other devices or for other purposes, integrating them into a single device for portable music easily fits the definition of innovation.
Talk about skewing facts.
I presume you're talking about the workers on the Microsoft Xbox factories who threatened mass suicide, over their plant being shut down, jobs not transferred, and promises of severance were withdrawn.
In other words, they were going to be "fired" anyway. Of course they weren't content, but this particular action was not in direct response to poor working conditions.
"Required"?
[Bill] Clennett can't remember if Chretien hurt him with the choke hold because it all happened so fast. But he did end up breaking the crown on a tooth during the scuffle.
A couple of months later, Clennett says the RCMP showed up at his door and offered to pay the $560 dental fee.
While he initially hesitated, Clennett says he took the money in order to buy an ad in the local French newspaper Le Droit, criticizing the Liberal government.
Even the aggressor/victim says the RCMP came to him and offered to pay. Clennett never even filed a lawsuit. How very Canadian of both the RCMP and Clennett.
Of course someone ordered the RCMP to make the offer, but that's a far cry from the implied "required by a court", and Chretien wasn't personally required to pay.
Perhaps you'd like to look into the aftermath a bit closer?
Let's not forget Darth Jean(Chretien), [...] that he's actually choked people publicly
Do not forget *why* that happened. At a public outdoor event, his protection detail failed to prevent a lone protester getting in his face to begin with. Maybe Chretien could have just shoved him in the chest, but as the leader of a nation his personal security perimeter was breached, and he was justified in literally taking matters in his own hands.
I would say the same if Harper found himself in the same situation, except Harper tolerates no protests in his vicinity. Give Chretien credit, at least he wasn't afraid to approach a line of protesters in a public venue.
One of the (many) reasons carriers are disliked is BECAUSE they supplied their own branded devices, with crippled or "extra charge" features (bluetooth, wifi), preloaded crudware, and sometimes linked an easily-hit physical key to launch the crappy browser and suck down a few kilobytes of data on a plan without data, just to charge a measly extra $2 and hope the customer feels it's not worth the effort to waste an hour on the phone to contest it. At least this is how things were in the US and Canada, don't know about the rest of the world.
The iPhone broke that stranglehold by denying AT&T and later carrier partners the ability to brand it and pre-install their junk. You are correct that with Android, the carriers now have more power than ever before to supply their branded "offerings", and that the carriers will get more money from this strategy (at initial sale, anyway; but I'll bet the support calls alone will eat into a lot of the per-unit profits). But I would bet that Apple does not lose much sleep over this, and they've already considered and factored it in to their long-term strategy.
You were doing great until you pulled the "Columbia disaster due to environmentalists" card.
According to the Columbia Accident Investigation Board report, Columbia's tank, ET-93, was built before the new environmental regulations came into play. ET-93 used the old CFC-11 foam.
So, now that you know they were using the old CFC-using foam, and the "tree huggers" had nothing to do with it, how does that change your feelings about Columbia?
Addendum to my post: it was not meant to excuse the fact that management issues were largely responsible for the Challenger and Columbia disasters, whereas the earlier malfunctions were technical or the result or not following procedure (IIRC Apollo 13's cryo tank was dropped just an inch or two during command module assembly, and they failed notice the replacement was a newer unit was built to updated electrical spec for later command modules, so the tank's internal temperature sensor got fried and couldn't warn the crew that it was burning off the insulation off the oxygen tank's internal wiring).
NASA manned spacecraft will never get safer or less expensive, thanks to the way it's (not properly) funded and (not really) supported by the American people and the politicians they vote in. Designing rockets by committee and political compromise, as you noted, is a recipe for disaster.
But, you're mixing metrics when you say we lost 2 shuttles and 14 crew in 50 flights over the 30 year history of shuttle operations. Within that 30 years there were 135 launches, two of which ended in disaster. I have no idea where you got "in 50 flights" from; even between Challenger and Columbia there were 86 successful launches--which rounds closer to 100 than 50.
By contrast, and this is not to diminish the actual loss of crew and vehicles with the shuttle, there were 29 manned US missions prior to the shuttle: 6 Mercury, 10 Gemini, and 13 Apollo. No in-flight deaths, but Apollo 13 came close, and Gemini 8 had major in-flight emergency as well. That's 2 major malfunctions in 29 flights (3 in 30 if you count Apollo 1), compared to 2 in 135 shuttle flights, despite the shuttle being a far more complex system.
Concur that the 4S isn't that hot on battery life. I could go 2 full days using my old 3GS, but after day 1 on my 4S it's just a bit below 50% and I won't risk it dying in the middle of day 2. I'm not even using the whiz-bang features like Siri much.
It could just be iOS5 though--after updating my 3GS it was no longer able to last two days of usage, either.
People mocked Apple for not including 4G in the iPhone 4S, but your experience, and that of the entire article, seems to validate their position: 4G technology just isn't power-efficient enough (YET) to include without forcing Apple to either include a much bigger (heavier, bulkier) battery, or cut their estimated usage time significantly.
The competition pushed the "bigger screen = better" in part because it's a genuinely requested feature, but the unspoken reason was to hide the fact a bigger battery was needed to drive the 4G electronics--and obviously it's *still* not enough. It's certainly not your display that's sucking battery life--despite the 4.27" screen the Thunderbolt has less than 2/3 the pixels the iPhone 4 and 4S has.
The fact you're on coast-to-coast flights (5-ish hours) should actually *increase* battery life for that charge, since you're in airplane mode and it's not hunting for cell or wifi signals.
You're probably watching video or playing games more during the flight than you'd be running around on the ground of course, but I'm amazed how little battery is used when I watch an hour-long show on my iPhone while on the gym machines--less than 5% drained. For comparison, browsing the web or using Facebook for 30 minutes on the bus will eat 10%.
Reading comprehension fail--or you rushed to post based only on the title. "Patent" didn't appear once in the summary since there's nothing to do with them, this is purely a trademark dispute.
If they only Darwin'ed themselves by hitting trees, that's one thing.
Unfortunately, Darwin doesn't discriminate between the idiot texting while driving on an undivided highway, and the family of four that he/she hits when he crosses the center line.
Had to lookup the difference between authentic and replica. Probably replica, then--it didn't include a fight strap.
Re: numbers... I saw that from the Android screenshots but didn't know that's how they're invoked. I can see how that's fine for one-off numbers, but if you were typing a phone number for example surely you'd still want to switch to a proper row of numbers rather than hold each letter/number key to type the number? Or is the pause before it switches to a number that brief?
To clarify: on an iPhone if you hold down a *specific* letter that's known to have accents, those accents appear above the letter and you slide your finger over to select one. Holding "e" reveals éèêë etc, holding down "a" reveals áàâä etc.
3: On Android if there's multiple suggested corrections I assume the first on the list is auto-selected if you just hit space? Yes multiple suggestions up front would be nice. It does this with Chinese character input so it's not a foreign concept to Apple.
BTW on the iPhone the after-the-fact suggestion bubble for also lists multiple suggestions horizontally, not vertically.
4. It's possible you tried just tapping to position the cursor, instead of press and hold. It only takes 1/5 a second for the magnifier to come up, but a tap and immediate release places it either at the start or end of a word.
The arrow keys on Swype sound useful. My take on why Apple doesn't include it, is that they've previously thrown out old ideas to force people to adapt to new technology and UI. The original 1984 Mac keyboards had no arrow keys either, forcing the user to learn to use the mouse, then a radical concept for consumers. After people got used to it (or enough people complained), they eventually added arrow keys back in. Then there's the original iMac which dropped all legacy ports, and the iPhone which completely did away with the desktop metaphor.
The decade-long failure of Windows tablets to gain traction with consumers suggests that including legacy input methods and UI paradigms just means normal people won't bother learning the new ones. Of course maybe there just weren't sufficient advantages with the new methods for the average user to learn them.
5. Yes, once/if we put the time in we should be proficient in either system.
Thanks for this exchange, it's been informative.
Don't know where the heck you're sourcing your jerseys that they're $350, I got my NHL hockey team's jersey on sale for $75, they're regularly $120-150 depending on style and whether a player's name and number is stitched on.
Yes, they're official. They don't get any more official than the team's store in their own arena.
1 and 2: Are you using a custom keyboard on your Android? A Google image search on "android keyboard" suggests a button push is needed for numbers and punctuation too. I'll need to play with a co-worker's Android phone tomorrow to see for myself...
Double-space does type a period and space. That's just something that comes with experience. I see many Android keyboards come with comma and period on either side of the space key, that's not a bad idea.
Special characters: I assume you mean brackets, parentheses, etc and not accent characters (which on the iPhone you just hold the key for a moment, and all possible accents pop up as options). It's not obvious from the image search I mentioned, how else do you type these on your Android?
The iPhone was my first cell phone and thumb-typing device. It all came naturally to me within an hour.
3. iOS 5 has some of those autocorrect features: it gives you the word it'll replace it with if you hit space or any punctuation, but no alternatives. If you tap that or any word it thinks is mis-spelled it usually gives you alternatives and corrects-in-place (actually this annoys the hell out of me, I usually want to manually correct a single missing letter, so I tap at the end of the word and start typing, but the entire word was selected for correct-in-place so my typing replaces it entirely). It kind of has the backspace-to-undo-autocorrect, but you have to select the "wrong" spelling from a popup bubble.
Auto-correct now also recognizes when you meant to type multiple words. I just typed "briwncdog" and it AC'ed to "brown dog". That's come in handy a number of times.
4. iOS gives you a movable text cursor too, which I think is analogous to the marker you mentioned--just tap and hold on the anywhere in the text field (not just over the word you want) and a magnifier appears to help position the cursor. Lack of arrow keys is occasionally annoying, but with limited screen space I get that they can't put one in, nor should they have (essentially waste 2 button areas for left/right, but any time you're moving more than a couple characters the touch-select is faster anyway). Lack of a forward-delete option is annoying though; Apple could easily add one by holding shift before pressing backspace to "reverse" its direction.
5. Not enough experience with swype to say if I like it or not. Played with it about five minutes, wasn't enough time to re-train my brain to "type" words out using just one thumb, it kept twitching to the letters it would be expecting to type had the other thumb been in play.
Indeed... I noticed that omission right after I submitted the comment, and made sure something like that was mentioned that in my next comment.
"Society" isn't recognizing you as an engineer, your employer is. The governing bodies that accredit engineers probably won't make too much of a fuss over a "software engineer" (they will for large organizations: in parts of Canada Microsoft is forbidden from spelling out what "MCSE" and similar certifications mean) but you can bet they'll be on someone like a ton of bricks if they're working in a civil or mechanical engineering capacity without proper accreditation.
Engineer and doctor are both protected terms in many places, and you cannot hold either title (i.e. on a business card) without accreditation from respective authorities. Misrepresenting yourself as an engineer won't get you more than a lawsuit and fine, but misrepresenting yourself as a doctor can get you jail time.
In parts of Canada, Microsoft was forced to only refer to their certifications as "MCSE", never expanded to "Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer".
There's similar attempts to protect the word "architect" although that's a more recent development.
You can turn off autocorrect. It's in the Settings app.
What else don't you like about the on-screen keyboard? Or is it just a dislike of on-screen (non-physical) keyboards in general?
Admittedly I have not. They can't replace the systems? What happens when such systems are bricked? You have to buy a whole new car??