I was one. Mine is a ps3 fat, and running linux was my second goal after making it a media server. Then they removed 'other os' I bitched back then on slashdot too, refused to update my ps3 untill the day came that netflix wouldn't let me cheat my way past the 'you must update' window.
fuck sony.
Never, ever, again.
I did build a home pc as a media viewer, but had problems getting my damn 42" toshiba screen to display correctly. It has 'weird' requirements to display a 1080p signal.
after that, I bought a ps3, to be my media machine, play blue ray, and run linux. Obviously netflix wasn't around when I first got it, but it quickly became the 'killer app' for me.
I will never buy a device that I can't install my own os of choice, and I'll never buy another sony device as long as I live.
PSN is required to use Netflix, So, yes, it is required to 'use' the PS3.
I don't game, and didn't buy the ps3 to game. I bought it to act as a media viewer. Not being able to watch netflix on my bigscreen is a huge problem. I had to agree to the new TOS or the netflx app wouldn't connect.
Unfortunately, I cannot cite any sources, because of when I found this out (mid eighties.) It was either in the forward to crystal singer (unlikely, or else others would know this) or it was an interview in twilight zone, analog, omni, or some other sci-fi magazine of the era.
I remember being amazed, and thinking how much the cover art looked like Pat Benatar, wondering if it was an intentional clue. Like you, I was classically trained, (piano) so this along with the halls of pern series strongly resonated with me.
That's all I got, sorry guys. If anyone can verify/disprove this, that'd be cool.
Crystal Singer was inspired by Pat Benatar, who was trained in opera, but was told by a teacher that the burr in her voice would keep her from being a world class opera singer.......
Man, I loved Crystal Singer.
the Pern stuff was fun, but Crystal Singer was always my favorite.
I too am an apple hater from the linux camp, but I also have to agree. I love my ipod classic (fuck Itunes, it's hacked with a linux kernel, but virtually the exact same UI) and I did enjoy my iphone before the android phones surpassed apple.
Sorry to see you go Steve, I have used just about every computer type you ever made, and every os you made. I may hate what apple has become, but boy oh boy! what the Fuck would the computer world have been like without you?
Way, way back in the windows 3.1 days, I used two shareware applications, one was called big windows, (it was 4 virtual desktops) and the other was a right click program manager menu that worked anywhere on the desktop. They were THE killer apps for windows.
I used those on 95, 95 se, 98, and they didn't work on win 2k. I searched and searched and searched, and always found something that gave me the same functionality. I always auto-hid my start menu on windows, and in linux I have two menus top and bottom of screen, and they both are autohide.
Now that I've been a linux only camp for over ten years, XFCE4 does both these exact things perfectly. IOW, microsoft can screw up their system all they want. Me? I've still got my multiple desktops for organizing running applications, and right click anywhere menu.
Oh yeah, OS X sucks floppy donkey balls. I hate the 'dock' ubuntu sucks shrunken monkey balls Gnome bites my hairy ass. Why oh why would i want to stupidify my desktop like gnome seems intent on doing? ribbon looks crappy, but I have no direct experiance with it so . . .
dunno where you are, but in Nevada, all the millenium films (Girl with the dragon tatoo;played with fire;kicked the hornets nest) were in swedish, with english subtitiles streamed through my ps3.
I agree I wish more anime was in japanese with subtitles, there's something about the original language, that a lot more emotion carrys through then english dubs.
Haha! I've been using XFCE as my desktop environment for years and years, and for the same reasons, kde became to big, gnome stupidified the desktop to the point I couldn't do WHAT I WANT with my own desktop.
because there isn't a portable music player available that can carry enough space to contain my entire music collection, (4 TB) 99.999% of which I personally bought.
I own one apple device, the ipod classic because it is the largest format device, and it is 120 Gig, which is 1/3d of my music collection converted to mp3's.
You (or someone else) may say 'why do you need all that music' but the answer to that is obvious.
My android phone is perfectly capable of being my music playing device, ( i use pandora and pay each year) why can't I stream my own music from a 'cloud' server? I mean, I could get of my lazy ass and set up a streaming server from home, but that's a pita. It would be so much easier to use google music. That sure is a lot easier then carrying TWO devices that can play music.
P.S. Google, make a goddamn app that runs under debian, so I dont' have to use a windows VM to upload my music.
Thanks.
Re:expecting quality from the movie, you ask too m
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RE; the lord of the rings trilogy.
First off, I did enjoy them, especially the extended versions,however.
As you previously stated, they left out Tom Bombadil (understandable, but still sad) which required them leaving out the barrow wights,and how the sword pippin uses injures the witch king of angmar;
also screws up old man willow pretty good vs the book.
I understood, but regret the removal/merging of Glorfindal and Arwen.
The whole fuck up about Faramir taking frodo, instead of re the book, realizing how important what he(Frodo) is doing is vs his (Faramirs) desire to please his father, again weakining Faramirs 'Charactor' Vs Boromirs 'Charactor'
The MAJOR (IMO) leaving out the Scouring of the shire, which is the whole point of the entire quest, showing how these four hobbits have matured into truly great people, vs how self centered and selfish they were at the beginning. (also gives meaning to the whole farmer maggots crops section)
the murder of saruman on Orthanc instead of in the shire, the 'enlightenment' frodo has acheived by the end of the story whereas he doesn't condone any killing, no matter how justified.
Those are off the top of my head, but as I said I did enjoy the films no matter how badly they mangled parts of the story.
finally updated my server from lenny to squeeze. Nice work Debian! I run sid on my workstations/netbooks/laptops, but stable is my server and 'friends' computer installs.
You are joking right?(OP) I'm using debian, and I routinely copy TB(s) of data from hard drive to hard drive via SATA and/or USB 2.0, and though the usb tramsfer speed is fairly slow, my system doesn't slow appreciably at all.
Weird, I've been using Linux for 10 years now, and one thing linux does really well is move large amounts of data around without killing the system (useability).
Lotsa ram is your freind, also make sure your / filesystem isn't the hdd that you're moving the data from/to or vice-versa. That does slow access down a bit.
The more awesome thing is, they (the stupid designers) made a similar mistake with the PRADA store front in the mall called Crystal in City Center, it is a black wall with recessed lenses, and PARABOLIC REFLECTORS behind the lenses. Did I mention the walls face east and south? The parabolic reflectors were made of plastic, and it was discovered, quite rapidly, that they (the plastic reflectors) melt rapidly and/or catch items on fire upon being exposed to sunlight. I've got video of a dumpster full of them burning. I know this because I just finished spending a month replacing said plastic domes with metal ones. expect fires.
I love Bad taste, and also Braindead (US name dead alive). Bad taste is so bad, that just when you walk over to turn it off, something happens that makes you simultaniously laugh and gross out.
AFAIC, Peter Jackson hasn't made a bad movie yet, including King Kong. His interpretation of TLOTR was all in all good, with some caveats. But, and it's a big but, he should be given 50 lashes for omitting the scouring of the shire. (that and letting Faramir succumb however short term, to the ring)
It'll be interesting to see if/when/how the hobbit gets made.
there was a version released on dvd that was the ORIGINAL, un-fucked with films. they were on the bonus disk of each film.
usb for Empire is 2454326383 usb for Return is 2454326393 don't have Star Wars in front of me, but I'd assume based on the above that its 2454326373
These are the ORIGINAL releases, for instance, star wars does NOT have the episode IV on the crawler. in empire, all the cloud city shots are dark and claustraphobic. Again, they are on the bonus disks. Not the first disk of each movie.
the special editions of the first trilogy (IV V VI) suck ass compared to the original versions, lucas fucked everything from his pacing to the cinematography (fuck spelling) by adding all those stupid unnecessary digital images/scenes. But don't take my word for it, go find the originals I referenced, and watch the originals and the SE back to back. I, like others won't ever buy the blu-ray, as I've got the original versions on dvd (well, ripped to my media player actually)
and, 1 2 and 3 sucked donkey balls. The youtube commentary/breakdown referenced earlier is fucking perfect.
Uhm, if you read on the jailbreak page, after the phone is jailbroken, and Cydia installed, they (the hackers who wrote the exploit) then fix the flaw in safari so that no more code can be run to root the phone.
So, yes. It is a benefit, since there is obviously a serious flaw in the os & jailbreaking it fixes the flaw.
Oh yeah, and no mms or bookmark issues for me either. It Just Works.
jaz
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I loved my Amiga 2000, it was an amazing machine, light years ahead of apple macintosh.... It wasn't untill I installed OS/2 on a 486 that I had another truly multi-tasking machine. Then Linus Torvalds came along.
I've been using firefox since the earliest phoenix days,(I know I'm old, but remember when talk of Firefox having 10% share was a pipe dream?) A couple of years ago, the memory leak was really bad. Now that 3.5/.6 is out, there is very little memory usage for as many tabs as I've got open (usualy 10-15, I keep ff running for weeks on end without shutting down). I use it on my netbook, 1 ghz atom, 2 gig ram, my older then shit laptop, amd turion? 2 gig ram. and my workstation amd phenom 3 core 2 gig ram. There are no hesitations, unless I run out of ram. Chrome is looking nice, and I keep it, ephiphany, konqueror & even mozilla proper as backups etc. Firefox is by far my main browser, that's due to AdBlock and FlashBlock mainly. I don't have a gazillion plug ins, just the aforementioned plus sun's java, & flash,
This hesitation you speak of, I don't have it. Not on any machines I use. They are all linux boxes, varients of debian stable or sid. Something else in your system is causing this, I don't think it's a firefox bug.
Sheeit, with a PS3 in the war room, slim pickens wouldn't have dropped that nuke on them damn ruskies, now would he? Peter Sellers could have called back Attack Plan R.
Contrary to published reports, Apple has not rejected the Google Voice application, and continues to study it. The application has not been approved because, as submitted for review, it appears to alter the iPhoneâ(TM)s distinctive user experience by replacing the iPhoneâ(TM)s core mobile telephone functionality and Apple user interface with its own user interface for telephone calls, text messaging and voicemail. Apple spent a lot of time and effort developing this distinct and innovative way to seamlessly deliver core functionality of the iPhone. For example, on an iPhone, the âoePhoneâ icon that is always shown at the bottom of the Home Screen launches Appleâ(TM)s mobile telephone application, providing access to Favorites, Recents, Contacts, a Keypad, and Visual Voicemail. The Google Voice application replaces Appleâ(TM)s Visual Voicemail by routing calls through a separate Google Voice telephone number that stores any voicemail, preventing voicemail from being stored on the iPhone, i.e., disabling Appleâ(TM)s Visual Voicemail. Similarly, SMS text messages are managed through the Google hubâ"replacing the iPhoneâ(TM)s text messaging feature. In addition, the iPhone userâ(TM)s entire Contacts database is transferred to Googleâ(TM)s servers, and we have yet to obtain any assurances from Google that this data will only be used in appropriate ways. These factors present several new issues and questions to us that we are still pondering at this time.....We are continuing to study the Google Voice application and its potential impact on the iPhone user experience. Google is of course free to provide Google Voice on the iPhone as a web application through Appleâ(TM)s Safari browser, just as they do for desktop PCs, or to provide its âoeGoogle-brandedâ user experience on other phones, including Android-based phones, and let consumers make their choices
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Apple is acting alone and has not consulted with AT&T about whether or not to approve the Google Voice application. No contractual conditions or non-contractual understandings with AT&T have been a factor in Appleâ(TM)s decision-making process in this matter.
question 3 answer
Apple alone makes the final decisions to approve or not approve iPhone applications.
There is a provision in Appleâ(TM)s agreement with AT&T that obligates Apple not to include functionality in any Apple phone that enables a customer to use AT&Tâ(TM)s cellular network service to originate or terminate a VoIP session without obtaining AT&Tâ(TM)s permission. Apple honors this obligation, in addition to respecting AT&Tâ(TM)s customer Terms of Service, which, for example, prohibit an AT&T customer from using AT&Tâ(TM)s cellular service to redirect a TV signal to an iPhone. From time to time, AT&T has expressed concerns regarding network efficiency and potential network congestion associated with certain applications, and Apple takes such concerns into consideration.
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Apple does not know if there is a VoIP element in the way the Google Voice application routes calls and messages, and whether VoIP technology is used over the 3G network by the application. Apple has approved numerous standard VoIP applications (such as Skype, Nimbuzz and iCall) for use over WiFi, but not over AT&Tâ(TM)s 3G network.
question 5 answer
In a little more than a year, the App Store has grown to become the worldâ(TM)s largest wireless applications store, with over 65,000 applications. Weâ(TM)ve rejected applications for a variety of reasons. Most rejections are based on the application containing quality issues or software bugs, while other rejections involve protecting consumer privacy, safeguarding children from inappropriate content, and avoiding applications that degrade the core experience of the i
It was obvious to me when goodman wasn't santa in the second Xmas special, looking up the credits just proved it. AFAIK, all the original voice actors will be in the new series.
The second greatest Tv series ever! (south park is the king)
Now I can't wait to get my own torgo's executive powder.
Slashdot Mirror
I was one. Mine is a ps3 fat, and running linux was my second goal after making it a media server. Then they removed 'other os' I bitched back then on slashdot too, refused to update my ps3 untill the day came that netflix wouldn't let me cheat my way past the 'you must update' window.
fuck sony.
Never, ever, again.
I did build a home pc as a media viewer, but had problems getting my damn 42" toshiba screen to display correctly. It has 'weird' requirements to display a 1080p signal.
after that, I bought a ps3, to be my media machine, play blue ray, and run linux. Obviously netflix wasn't around when I first got it, but it quickly became the 'killer app' for me.
I will never buy a device that I can't install my own os of choice, and I'll never buy another sony device as long as I live.
jaz
PSN is required to use Netflix, So, yes, it is required to 'use' the PS3.
I don't game, and didn't buy the ps3 to game. I bought it to act as a media viewer. Not being able to watch netflix on my bigscreen is a huge problem. I had to agree to the new TOS or the netflx app wouldn't connect.
I'd sign onto this class action, you bet.
I'll never buy a sony product again.
jaz
Unfortunately, I cannot cite any sources, because of when I found this out (mid eighties.) It was either in the forward to crystal singer (unlikely, or else others would know this) or it was an interview in twilight zone, analog, omni, or some other sci-fi magazine of the era.
I remember being amazed, and thinking how much the cover art looked like Pat Benatar, wondering if it was an intentional clue.
Like you, I was classically trained, (piano) so this along with the halls of pern series strongly resonated with me.
That's all I got, sorry guys. If anyone can verify/disprove this, that'd be cool.
I'm sure someone has already said this, but
Crystal Singer was inspired by Pat Benatar, who was trained in opera, but was told by a teacher that the burr in her voice would keep her from being a world class opera singer.......
Man, I loved Crystal Singer.
the Pern stuff was fun, but Crystal Singer was always my favorite.
jaz
I too am an apple hater from the linux camp, but I also have to agree. I love my ipod classic (fuck Itunes, it's hacked with a linux kernel, but virtually the exact same UI) and I did enjoy my iphone before the android phones surpassed apple.
Sorry to see you go Steve, I have used just about every computer type you ever made, and every os you made. I may hate what apple has become, but boy oh boy! what the Fuck would the computer world have been like without you?
jaz
Way, way back in the windows 3.1 days, I used two shareware applications, one was called big windows, (it was 4 virtual desktops) and the other was a right click program manager menu that worked anywhere on the desktop. They were THE killer apps for windows.
I used those on 95, 95 se, 98, and they didn't work on win 2k. I searched and searched and searched, and always found something that gave me the same functionality. I always auto-hid my start menu on windows, and in linux I have two menus top and bottom of screen, and they both are autohide.
Now that I've been a linux only camp for over ten years, XFCE4 does both these exact things perfectly. IOW, microsoft can screw up their system all they want. Me? I've still got my multiple desktops for organizing running applications, and right click anywhere menu.
Oh yeah, OS X sucks floppy donkey balls. I hate the 'dock'
ubuntu sucks shrunken monkey balls
Gnome bites my hairy ass. Why oh why would i want to stupidify my desktop like gnome seems intent on doing?
ribbon looks crappy, but I have no direct experiance with it so . . .
jaz
dunno where you are, but in Nevada, all the millenium films (Girl with the dragon tatoo;played with fire;kicked the hornets nest) were in swedish, with english subtitiles streamed through my ps3.
I agree I wish more anime was in japanese with subtitles, there's something about the original language, that a lot more emotion carrys through then english dubs.
odd.
jaz
Haha! I've been using XFCE as my desktop environment for years and years, and for the same reasons, kde became to big, gnome stupidified the desktop to the point I couldn't do WHAT I WANT with my own desktop.
XFCE4 for the win!
jaz
because there isn't a portable music player available that can carry enough space to contain my entire music collection, (4 TB) 99.999% of which I personally bought.
I own one apple device, the ipod classic because it is the largest format device, and it is 120 Gig, which is 1/3d of my music collection converted to mp3's.
You (or someone else) may say 'why do you need all that music' but the answer to that is obvious.
My android phone is perfectly capable of being my music playing device, ( i use pandora and pay each year) why can't I stream my own music from a 'cloud' server? I mean, I could get of my lazy ass and set up a streaming server from home, but that's a pita. It would be so much easier to use google music. That sure is a lot easier then carrying TWO devices that can play music.
P.S. Google, make a goddamn app that runs under debian, so I dont' have to use a windows VM to upload my music.
Thanks.
RE; the lord of the rings trilogy.
First off, I did enjoy them, especially the extended versions,however.
As you previously stated, they left out Tom Bombadil (understandable, but still sad)
which required them leaving out the barrow wights,and how the sword pippin uses injures the witch king of angmar;
also screws up old man willow pretty good vs the book.
I understood, but regret the removal/merging of Glorfindal and Arwen.
The whole fuck up about Faramir taking frodo, instead of re the book, realizing how important what he(Frodo) is doing is vs his (Faramirs) desire to please his father, again weakining Faramirs 'Charactor' Vs Boromirs 'Charactor'
The MAJOR (IMO) leaving out the Scouring of the shire, which is the whole point of the entire quest, showing how these four hobbits have matured into truly great people, vs how self centered and selfish they were at the beginning. (also gives meaning to the whole farmer maggots crops section)
the murder of saruman on Orthanc instead of in the shire,
the 'enlightenment' frodo has acheived by the end of the story whereas he doesn't condone any killing, no matter how justified.
Those are off the top of my head, but as I said I did enjoy the films no matter how badly they mangled parts of the story.
Oh, Yeah.
finally updated my server from lenny to squeeze. Nice work Debian! I run sid on my workstations/netbooks/laptops, but stable is my server and 'friends' computer installs.
The new website is nice. Clean, simple.
XFCE for the win.
jaz
You are joking right?(OP) I'm using debian, and I routinely copy TB(s) of data from hard drive to hard drive via SATA and/or USB 2.0, and though the usb tramsfer speed is fairly slow, my system doesn't slow appreciably at all.
Weird, I've been using Linux for 10 years now, and one thing linux does really well is move large amounts of data around without killing the system (useability).
Lotsa ram is your freind, also make sure your / filesystem isn't the hdd that you're moving the data from/to or vice-versa. That does slow access down a bit.
jaz
The more awesome thing is, they (the stupid designers) made a similar mistake with the PRADA store front in the mall called Crystal in City Center, it is a black wall with recessed lenses, and PARABOLIC REFLECTORS behind the lenses. Did I mention the walls face east and south? The parabolic reflectors were made of plastic, and it was discovered, quite rapidly, that they (the plastic reflectors) melt rapidly and/or catch items on fire upon being exposed to sunlight. I've got video of a dumpster full of them burning. I know this because I just finished spending a month replacing said plastic domes with metal ones. expect fires.
jaz
I love Bad taste, and also Braindead (US name dead alive). Bad taste is so bad, that just when you walk over to turn it off, something happens that makes you simultaniously laugh and gross out.
AFAIC, Peter Jackson hasn't made a bad movie yet, including King Kong. His interpretation of TLOTR was all in all good, with some caveats. But, and it's a big but, he should be given 50 lashes for omitting the scouring of the shire. (that and letting Faramir succumb however short term, to the ring)
It'll be interesting to see if/when/how the hobbit gets made.
jaz
You forgot The Hurd, you insensitive clod!
hahahaa!
no, really, Debian user for 10 years now, Debian kicks ass.
AFAIC, it's the best linux (or any other) distro out there.
XFCE4 for the win!
jaz
there was a version released on dvd that was the ORIGINAL, un-fucked with films. they were on the bonus disk of each film.
usb for Empire is 2454326383
usb for Return is 2454326393
don't have Star Wars in front of me, but I'd assume based on the above that its 2454326373
These are the ORIGINAL releases, for instance, star wars does NOT have the episode IV on the crawler. in empire, all the cloud city shots are dark and claustraphobic. Again, they are on the bonus disks. Not the first disk of each movie.
the special editions of the first trilogy (IV V VI) suck ass compared to the original versions, lucas fucked everything from his pacing to the cinematography (fuck spelling) by adding all those stupid unnecessary digital images/scenes. But don't take my word for it, go find the originals I referenced, and watch the originals and the SE back to back.
I, like others won't ever buy the blu-ray, as I've got the original versions on dvd (well, ripped to my media player actually)
and, 1 2 and 3 sucked donkey balls. The youtube commentary/breakdown referenced earlier is fucking perfect.
jaz
Uhm, if you read on the jailbreak page, after the phone is jailbroken, and Cydia installed, they (the hackers who wrote the exploit) then fix the flaw in safari so that no more code can be run to root the phone.
So, yes. It is a benefit, since there is obviously a serious flaw in the os & jailbreaking it fixes the flaw.
Oh yeah, and no mms or bookmark issues for me either. It Just Works.
jaz
I loved my Amiga 2000, it was an amazing machine, light years ahead of apple macintosh....
It wasn't untill I installed OS/2 on a 486 that I had another truly multi-tasking machine.
Then Linus Torvalds came along.
Thank Bog!
jaz
I've been using firefox since the earliest phoenix days,(I know I'm old, but remember when talk of Firefox having 10% share was a pipe dream?) A couple of years ago, the memory leak was really bad. Now that 3.5 /.6 is out, there is very little memory usage for as many tabs as I've got open (usualy 10-15, I keep ff running for weeks on end without shutting down). I use it on my netbook, 1 ghz atom, 2 gig ram, my older then shit laptop, amd turion? 2 gig ram. and my workstation amd phenom 3 core 2 gig ram. There are no hesitations, unless I run out of ram. Chrome is looking nice, and I keep it, ephiphany, konqueror & even mozilla proper as backups etc. Firefox is by far my main browser, that's due to AdBlock and FlashBlock mainly. I don't have a gazillion plug ins, just the aforementioned plus sun's java, & flash,
This hesitation you speak of, I don't have it. Not on any machines I use. They are all linux boxes, varients of debian stable or sid. Something else in your system is causing this, I don't think it's a firefox bug.
jaz
Sheeit, with a PS3 in the war room, slim pickens wouldn't have dropped that nuke on them damn ruskies, now would he? Peter Sellers could have called back Attack Plan R.
Like I'm gonna tell you what I do. . . Don't write them down, don't use the 'remember password' option for bank websites. That is all.
jaz
Yep, it was out for me for about an hour. dunno why. FWIW, I could still see my inbox on my igoogle page, just couldn't access it.
jaz
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Contrary to published reports, Apple has not rejected the Google Voice application, and continues to study it. The application has not been approved because, as submitted for review, it appears to alter the iPhoneâ(TM)s distinctive user experience by replacing the iPhoneâ(TM)s core mobile telephone functionality and Apple user interface with its own user interface for telephone calls, text messaging and voicemail. Apple spent a lot of time and effort developing this distinct and innovative way to seamlessly deliver core functionality of the iPhone. For example, on an iPhone, the âoePhoneâ icon that is always shown at the bottom of the Home Screen launches Appleâ(TM)s mobile telephone application, providing access to Favorites, Recents, Contacts, a Keypad, and Visual Voicemail. The Google Voice application replaces Appleâ(TM)s Visual Voicemail by routing calls through a separate Google Voice telephone number that stores any voicemail, preventing voicemail from being stored on the iPhone, i.e., disabling Appleâ(TM)s Visual Voicemail. Similarly, SMS text messages are managed through the Google hubâ"replacing the iPhoneâ(TM)s text messaging feature. In addition, the iPhone userâ(TM)s entire Contacts database is transferred to Googleâ(TM)s servers, and we have yet to obtain any assurances from Google that this data will only be used in appropriate ways. These factors present several new issues and questions to us that we are still pondering at this time... ..We are continuing to study the Google Voice application and its potential impact on the iPhone user experience. Google is of course free to provide Google Voice on the iPhone as a web application through Appleâ(TM)s Safari browser, just as they do for desktop PCs, or to provide its âoeGoogle-brandedâ user experience on other phones, including Android-based phones, and let consumers make their choices
question 2 answer
Apple is acting alone and has not consulted with AT&T about whether or not to approve the Google Voice application. No contractual conditions or non-contractual understandings with AT&T have been a factor in Appleâ(TM)s decision-making process in this matter.
question 3 answer
Apple alone makes the final decisions to approve or not approve iPhone applications.
There is a provision in Appleâ(TM)s agreement with AT&T that obligates Apple not to include functionality in any Apple phone that enables a customer to use AT&Tâ(TM)s cellular network service to originate or terminate a VoIP session without obtaining AT&Tâ(TM)s permission. Apple honors this obligation, in addition to respecting AT&Tâ(TM)s customer Terms of Service, which, for example, prohibit an AT&T customer from using AT&Tâ(TM)s cellular service to redirect a TV signal to an iPhone. From time to time, AT&T has expressed concerns regarding network efficiency and potential network congestion associated with certain applications, and Apple takes such concerns into consideration.
question 4 answer
Apple does not know if there is a VoIP element in the way the Google Voice application routes calls and messages, and whether VoIP technology is used over the 3G network by the application. Apple has approved numerous standard VoIP applications (such as Skype, Nimbuzz and iCall) for use over WiFi, but not over AT&Tâ(TM)s 3G network.
question 5 answer
In a little more than a year, the App Store has grown to become the worldâ(TM)s largest wireless applications store, with over 65,000 applications. Weâ(TM)ve rejected applications for a variety of reasons. Most rejections are based on the application containing quality issues or software bugs, while other rejections involve protecting consumer privacy, safeguarding children from inappropriate content, and avoiding applications that degrade the core experience of the i
Good News, Everyone!
It was obvious to me when goodman wasn't santa in the second Xmas special, looking up the credits just proved it.
AFAIK, all the original voice actors will be in the new series.
The second greatest Tv series ever! (south park is the king)
Now I can't wait to get my own torgo's executive powder.
jaz
Yes, it's xdm and xfce4. I just finished installing it on a machine. Very nice not to have all those gnome apps.
jaz