> Why would I need SSL to access a e.g. recipes page which doesn't even have a login page?
No no, you've got it backwards. Why shouldn't all communication be secure and encrypted? Latency isn't important unless you're gaming; certainly not the minuscule 1% or whatever it is SSL costs. It's no-one's business which sites you go to and what you do when you get there.
> I know several people with a 3GS who are looking forward to upgrading, because it's a big leap for > them.
Let's be honest - pretty much every phone out there is a big leap for 3GS users, what with the tiny, almost monochrome display and piss poor power. The figures speak for themselves - Apple had their day in the sun and now they're playing catch up with the Galaxy S2, Nexus Prime etc. Even the Kindle launch was more interesting than this.
> It is Apple tactic No. 1, and Cook is full square behind it.
With let-downs like this he needs to be careful if it's not going to be "Cook? Cook who?".
I can only assume the 5 wasn't ready so they had to put out a sort of overclocked HTC Wildfire. "It's got voice recognition, which means you can.." Yeah yeah, been there, it's been on Android for, what, two years now?
They provide entertaining plane/sub/ etc disasters. Oh, and putin does stuff like lying about finding ancient vases etc when he goes swimming. He's like that bearded Iranian twat. But without the beard.
I didn't have a problem with Flash, until I moved to Ubuntu. Now I can see the attraction of an open standard where stuff works out of the box (yes, even on a 64 bit OS - imagine that, I have more than 3 gigs of ram) rather than dealing with pain, glitches and crashes.
I'm not one of those 9/ 11 conspiracy lovers, but you read stuff like this and wonder what else you don't know about what these government bodies are getting up to.
From my experience, the opera one was still too slow. It seemed to be ok immediately after a new version was released then it would end up being worse than a regular browser. So if Amazon put some CPU/bandwidth behind it it would be quite different.
I like how you sarcastically, and unintentionally, give the exact same answer! He doesn't work that long, have that many kids etc, and therefore COULD in fact find the time.
Another possibility is that there's no way for him to learn this stuff as there's no way of doing it without leaving the girlfriend, drowning some kids etc.
Well, yeah, but still able to run any Android app, so it may be forked, but that won't affect the end user. It will only ever receive Amazon upgrades (if any) but then again, it'll be a console-type known quantity people can develop for knowing it'll run on all of them.
> did they go back and look at other 'spikes' to see if they meant anything?
Even that won't necessarily work. You can't predict the future of share prices by using past data. You can perfectly predict events that have already happened using earlier events, but that doesn't mean it'll work for future data/events.
Yes, revolutions are going to happen in fucked up/unfair countries, not ones which are stable and sensible. So, Denmark: no, Egypt: possibly, who knows/cares?
> (Note: Since you probably are a telemarketer, and thus near clinically brain-dead, let me explain that > this is sarcasm and in no way is it a good idea to stick things into electrical outlets the weren't > intended to go there
Let's not be too hasty. Telling a telemarketer not to do such a thing may constitute advice which they may decide to sue you for later. Best not to offer any advice, and let nature take its course.
Good for them, but bad for everyone else. Users lose the continual improvements we're used to, manufacturers and retailers have to deal with people making their kit last years longer as they have fewer reasons to upgrade. Probably very good for Google and other companies who "rent" computers.
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> Why would I need SSL to access a e.g. recipes page which doesn't even have a login page?
No no, you've got it backwards. Why shouldn't all communication be secure and encrypted? Latency isn't important unless you're gaming; certainly not the minuscule 1% or whatever it is SSL costs. It's no-one's business which sites you go to and what you do when you get there.
> I know several people with a 3GS who are looking forward to upgrading, because it's a big leap for
> them.
Let's be honest - pretty much every phone out there is a big leap for 3GS users, what with the tiny, almost monochrome display and piss poor power. The figures speak for themselves - Apple had their day in the sun and now they're playing catch up with the Galaxy S2, Nexus Prime etc. Even the Kindle launch was more interesting than this.
> It is Apple tactic No. 1, and Cook is full square behind it.
With let-downs like this he needs to be careful if it's not going to be "Cook? Cook who?".
I can only assume the 5 wasn't ready so they had to put out a sort of overclocked HTC Wildfire. "It's got voice recognition, which means you can.." Yeah yeah, been there, it's been on Android for, what, two years now?
I like the Start button - how else am I supposed to stop my pc. Where are they going to put Shutdown now?
Perhaps the browsers can soon start warning users that they've about to visit an insecure site and ask if they wish to continue?
They provide entertaining plane/sub/ etc disasters. Oh, and putin does stuff like lying about finding ancient vases etc when he goes swimming. He's like that bearded Iranian twat. But without the beard.
> In other words, they're throwing themselves off a cliff with an anvil around their neck
An anvil which very soon will have both cut AND paste functionality.
> can't we just acknowledge success when it happens?
I'd like to acknowledge some irony too - is that ok?
I didn't have a problem with Flash, until I moved to Ubuntu. Now I can see the attraction of an open standard where stuff works out of the box (yes, even on a 64 bit OS - imagine that, I have more than 3 gigs of ram) rather than dealing with pain, glitches and crashes.
I'm surprised the shareholders of Google haven't done more to urge Google to spend their profits on supporting Samsung.
Isn't that the one that's the same spec as the new Kindle, but about 4 times as expensive? Wow - odd decision.
I look forward to picking one up at $49 just before Christmas!
You can turn off the proxying if you want the speed.
I'm not one of those 9/ 11 conspiracy lovers, but you read stuff like this and wonder what else you don't know about what these government bodies are getting up to.
From my experience, the opera one was still too slow. It seemed to be ok immediately after a new version was released then it would end up being worse than a regular browser. So if Amazon put some CPU/bandwidth behind it it would be quite different.
Shall we look at the PDF and see if it has been amended, then?
There are photos and videos here:
http://www.cryptome.org/
I like how you sarcastically, and unintentionally, give the exact same answer! He doesn't work that long, have that many kids etc, and therefore COULD in fact find the time.
Another possibility is that there's no way for him to learn this stuff as there's no way of doing it without leaving the girlfriend, drowning some kids etc.
> can connect to WiFi,
If they do a deal with Samsung for the iPhone 5, that is.
Well, yeah, but still able to run any Android app, so it may be forked, but that won't affect the end user. It will only ever receive Amazon upgrades (if any) but then again, it'll be a console-type known quantity people can develop for knowing it'll run on all of them.
> This is stupid, and I'm not switching to e-books until a reasonably wide selection of books is
> available in an open format from diverse vendors
So, Kindle and PDFs, then?
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/32987/how-to-read-pdf-files-on-your-amazon-kindle-version-3/
There, that wasn't too difficult, was it?
> did they go back and look at other 'spikes' to see if they meant anything?
Even that won't necessarily work. You can't predict the future of share prices by using past data. You can perfectly predict events that have already happened using earlier events, but that doesn't mean it'll work for future data/events.
Yes, revolutions are going to happen in fucked up/unfair countries, not ones which are stable and sensible. So, Denmark: no, Egypt: possibly, who knows/cares?
> (Note: Since you probably are a telemarketer, and thus near clinically brain-dead, let me explain that
> this is sarcasm and in no way is it a good idea to stick things into electrical outlets the weren't
> intended to go there
Let's not be too hasty. Telling a telemarketer not to do such a thing may constitute advice which they may decide to sue you for later. Best not to offer any advice, and let nature take its course.
This whole thing reminds me of Space Cowboys. Actually, Clint Eastwood can probably still fit in a spacesuit...
Good for them, but bad for everyone else. Users lose the continual improvements we're used to, manufacturers and retailers have to deal with people making their kit last years longer as they have fewer reasons to upgrade. Probably very good for Google and other companies who "rent" computers.
The installer for Cygwin is extremely simple and intuitive to use, andmakes remote, unattended installs a breeze,so you'll have no difficulties there.