In related news, Apple plans to sell iPhones unlocked in Canada. The Canadian cell-phone market has started becoming competitive this year, with Bell/Telus deploying HSPA networks compatible with the Rogers/Fido network. (They wanted to cash in on roaming visitors during the Olympics and the iPhone fad, no doubt.) Factory-unlocked iPhones are also available in Belgium, France, Italy, the UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand. We laugh at you Americans who are stuck with AT&T, and who keep wishing for a Verizon iPhone. You don't seem to realize that Apple doesn't care to produce a special CDMA model just for one carrier in one country, when it is already selling one GSM phone worldwide faster than it can make them.
7.6 Content Protection Technology. If you Use the Adobe Runtimes to access content that has been protected with Adobe Flash Media Rights Management Server or Flash Access software (“Content Protection”), in order to let you play the protected content, the Software may automatically request media usage rights and individualization rights from a rights server on the Internet, and may download and install required components of the Software, including any available Content Protection Updates. You can find more information on Content Protection at http://www.adobe.com/go/protected_content.
You have to download a 3.3 MB PDF with 280 pages to find this kind of stuff. There's no telling how far these updates will go (remember TurboTax DRM?).
Safari 5 fixes 48 security holes!
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Users should also be aware that Safari 5 fixes 48 security holes in Safari 4.0. Therefore, if you are using Safari 4.0, you should upgrade as soon as possible. For Mac OS 10.4, there is Safari 4.1 available instead of Safari 5.0.
The linked article was mediocre. We all know how to cut things with scissors and knives, what we need are the measurements. Here is a better writeup, with the micro SIM dimensions. It also links to the micro SIM shop, where you can buy adapters to convert the micro SIM back to a mini SIM.
The San Jose Mercury News (warning: pop-under ad) has more details.
The ordinance does not ban Happy Meal toys per se, but rather bans toys distributed with meals that exceed nutritional limits (485 Calories, 600 mg sodium).
Furthermore, it only applies to unincorporated areas of Santa Clara County. (There are no McDonald's locations in unincorporated areas of Santa Clara County.)
This seems like a good idea to me. Obviously, fast food restaurants give toys away only as a perverse incentive to attract kids. This ordinance, while largely symbolic, nullifies that marketing ploy. You want a toy? You can only get it if you forego the soda and the salt on the fries.
The ASUS RT-N16 is an awesome router that is supported by DD-WRT and has been reported to work with Tomato. The stock firmware is pretty good too. It has some impressive specifications:
IE 9 will render pages incorrectly more quickly. How is that useful? I'd much rather have it render pages according to the standards, however long it takes.
European speed limits are just as revenue-generating as American ones. Probably even more so, considering that in Europe more of the enforcement is done by automatic cameras. In England, it's particularly ridiculous -- there are speed cameras every few blocks.
Although Hong Kong is technically part of China, it is still in many ways independent. Physically, there is a border control between Hong Kong and Shenzhen. In terms of Internet topology, Hong Kong is outside the Great Firewall of China. The PRC government can block access from mainland China to google.com.hk, just as it can block access to google.com or any other site. This sounds more like a face-saving statement by Google to claim that they are still technically operating in China than a strategic move.
Better yet, it should be like Linux -- you only have to reboot if there's there's an update to the kernel.
Nowadays, it's technically possible to update the Linux kernel while it runs using Ksplice. Actually, I find that the biggest update annoyance on Linux is Firefox. A new version of Firefox comes out about once a week, and upgrading requires Firefox to be restarted. Not only do I lose session state in my windows and tabs, the whole browser becomes unstable if Firefox is already running when the upgrade occurs.
That wouldn't be the only time that Rails has been sloppy in choosing the right HTTP method to use. When they implemented REST, they got PUT and POST backwards. Compare with CouchDB, which gets it right: PUT to create and POST to update a record.
Apple makes opinionated hardware. Rails is opinionated software. It's not surprising that the two fan bases act similarly. In fact, I would bet that there is a lot of overlap between the two groups.
A large part of why people feel threatened by Muslims is just that they happen to be an easily identifiable foreign group. A security system based on racial profiling is a security system with a back door.
Oddly, the UK government did not lose its senses during the IRA attacks the way it has now.
Apple also needs a better name for their iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad operating system, since "iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad operating system" is too cumbersome. I suggest that they name it Apple iOS. =)
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In related news, Apple plans to sell iPhones unlocked in Canada. The Canadian cell-phone market has started becoming competitive this year, with Bell/Telus deploying HSPA networks compatible with the Rogers/Fido network. (They wanted to cash in on roaming visitors during the Olympics and the iPhone fad, no doubt.) Factory-unlocked iPhones are also available in Belgium, France, Italy, the UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand. We laugh at you Americans who are stuck with AT&T, and who keep wishing for a Verizon iPhone. You don't seem to realize that Apple doesn't care to produce a special CDMA model just for one carrier in one country, when it is already selling one GSM phone worldwide faster than it can make them.
It's also OpenSource [...] Meaning if Linux or *BSD wanted to they too could also have it too.
They could, if it weren't patented.
There is a new clause in the Flash 10.1 EULA that was not present in 10.0:
You have to download a 3.3 MB PDF with 280 pages to find this kind of stuff. There's no telling how far these updates will go (remember TurboTax DRM?).
Users should also be aware that Safari 5 fixes 48 security holes in Safari 4.0. Therefore, if you are using Safari 4.0, you should upgrade as soon as possible. For Mac OS 10.4, there is Safari 4.1 available instead of Safari 5.0.
Ha! I predicted iOS half a year ago, when the iPad was first announced and Fujitsu was going to sue.
Printing from an iPad is a solved problem.
The linked article was mediocre. We all know how to cut things with scissors and knives, what we need are the measurements. Here is a better writeup, with the micro SIM dimensions. It also links to the micro SIM shop, where you can buy adapters to convert the micro SIM back to a mini SIM.
What's the difference between an HTML5 video tag and a simple hyperlink to a video file, which has worked for as long as video files have been around?
My thoughts exactly! I still reminisce about the old Gopher days, when my text was unsullied by <img> tags.
From the article:
You can't retry a deadlocked kernel. The only way out is a hard reset.
The San Jose Mercury News (warning: pop-under ad) has more details. The ordinance does not ban Happy Meal toys per se, but rather bans toys distributed with meals that exceed nutritional limits (485 Calories, 600 mg sodium). Furthermore, it only applies to unincorporated areas of Santa Clara County. (There are no McDonald's locations in unincorporated areas of Santa Clara County.)
This seems like a good idea to me. Obviously, fast food restaurants give toys away only as a perverse incentive to attract kids. This ordinance, while largely symbolic, nullifies that marketing ploy. You want a toy? You can only get it if you forego the soda and the salt on the fries.
The ASUS RT-N16 is an awesome router that is supported by DD-WRT and has been reported to work with Tomato. The stock firmware is pretty good too. It has some impressive specifications:
You should be able to find one for about $100.
IE 9 will render pages incorrectly more quickly. How is that useful? I'd much rather have it render pages according to the standards, however long it takes.
European speed limits are just as revenue-generating as American ones. Probably even more so, considering that in Europe more of the enforcement is done by automatic cameras. In England, it's particularly ridiculous -- there are speed cameras every few blocks.
Ecofont: the font with holes within the strokes to save ink/toner.
Whether it's global warming or the Internet, Al Gore has this year's Peace Prize coming to him.
Although Hong Kong is technically part of China, it is still in many ways independent. Physically, there is a border control between Hong Kong and Shenzhen. In terms of Internet topology, Hong Kong is outside the Great Firewall of China. The PRC government can block access from mainland China to google.com.hk, just as it can block access to google.com or any other site. This sounds more like a face-saving statement by Google to claim that they are still technically operating in China than a strategic move.
Wasn't Adam the original organ donor? Eve was created from his rib.
Better yet, it should be like Linux -- you only have to reboot if there's there's an update to the kernel.
Nowadays, it's technically possible to update the Linux kernel while it runs using Ksplice. Actually, I find that the biggest update annoyance on Linux is Firefox. A new version of Firefox comes out about once a week, and upgrading requires Firefox to be restarted. Not only do I lose session state in my windows and tabs, the whole browser becomes unstable if Firefox is already running when the upgrade occurs.
Put more simply...
The Prius isn't going to stay at 70. As we all know now, Priuses are unstoppable.
On the other hand, whatever computer he uses is more likely to have Linux driver support. That's an endorsement that is actually worth something.
That wouldn't be the only time that Rails has been sloppy in choosing the right HTTP method to use. When they implemented REST, they got PUT and POST backwards. Compare with CouchDB, which gets it right: PUT to create and POST to update a record.
Apple makes opinionated hardware. Rails is opinionated software. It's not surprising that the two fan bases act similarly. In fact, I would bet that there is a lot of overlap between the two groups.
Do you remember...
A large part of why people feel threatened by Muslims is just that they happen to be an easily identifiable foreign group. A security system based on racial profiling is a security system with a back door.
Oddly, the UK government did not lose its senses during the IRA attacks the way it has now.
Apple also needs a better name for their iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad operating system, since "iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad operating system" is too cumbersome. I suggest that they name it Apple iOS. =)