You seriously believe that Sony would disable all access to it's multiplayer games, movie sharing etc, because someone's temporarily able to use one of their devices as a dev console? I think that overblows Sony's interest in homebrew.
I'm not aware of any phones for which removing the sim card is a hassle. Almost everyone in the UK upgrades their phone every 12-24 months, and nearly all of them take the sim card out of one phone and stick it in the new one. One of the crappier networks here took to glueing them in a few years back, but other than that I have no idea what you could possibly be talking about.
It's pretty shocking. Rather than a handheld camera to capture the continuous nature of the thing there's a load of cutting here and there; missing the action and so on. It would be nice to see the whole thing in one go.
Good - let them waste their money. People only go into space these days to make a point. 50 years ago it was a big deal. Now ever India can launch rockets. China too? Wow, very exciting. A rocket you say...into space? Who's got the remote?
it's swings and roundabouts, though. If you only have your own copy and it's not online somewhere, then you're at risk of theft, fire, flood, magnets, children pouring water on your pc etc etc. A professionally backed up cloud is way safer.
It's safer to say "If you care about it you have your own copy AND a copy on the cloud".
I understand Google use flash for their file handling in the browser; ie adding attachments etc. Can you browse network drives, select multiple files, get their stats/remaining disk space etc in html5?
I don't want to sound trolly as I'm not a web developer. It seems people are trying to do more and more in the browser to make the online experience a bit less crap and more useful like a normal application, but with a sandbox based-security system. I had hoped that something better would replace the browser but that doesn't seem to have happened yet. Perhaps it will...after just another 5 or 10 new standards are added to the mix...
What's tamper got to do with it? If it's a list of criminal associates, evidence about past crimes etc then the hard drive needn't get mentioned in court; it's just more info for the police and their investigation. You'd not use the info to 'prove' people were involved; you'd investigate those people and get proof via phone taps, physical evidence etc.
Hmm. Not blocking adds seems a bit like deliberately reading ads in newspapers because "if everyone didn't read ads, the papers would have to charge more".
If Google etc allows ssl, and everyone uses it, and the emails themselves are encrypted, then the governments have a bit of a problem. They can outlaw it, require access etc. But then people can add proper encryption on top of that, but this won't stand out trivially because all the other emails will be encrypted anyway, so they'll have to get google to give them access to everyone's email, which will be hard to keep secret. This is probably what they're worrying about.
They'll find it pretty easy to identify people using PirateBay, p2p, blog sites and the like, and send them letters informing them of a) copyright laws, and b) their exciting new music download service.
It sounds like a very bright light, which is why it's odd/predictable that they're going for the opposite description on the endorsement linked to when they say:
Itâ(TM)s very analogous to walking from a very bright room into a very dark room. Itâ(TM)s the inverse of blindness
How do you unlock it? Second password, probably. Also, many, many secure systems don't lock you out because it's a pain in the ass to get it unlocked. If you want to mess someone up and can't guess their password then lock their account up.
Well, that or just stick it in a VM. Since running Windows (especially) in a VM I don't care any more about that sort of thing. (Every now and then I just delete it and restore from a cleanish one to be on the safe side.)
> How much more can you really improve on a tablet at this point?
Eh? There's precisely one tablet out there at the moment, in real terms. Android isn't really there yet (on the tablet, I mean, compared to the iPad 2), although it'll conquer the iPad in the near future. Now is the best time for Microsoft to launch a tablet if only they could manage a good one. Perhaps they don't think their new phone OS is something which will work on tablets and don't want another, incompatible platform?
I'm not sure I agree. You'd need to do a MD5 checksum on the file, once, as it's uploaded (this is not needed in the case of stuff bought from Amazon as they'll only need to calculate the checksum once ever). You'd need to compare that checksum against all the other checksums, once, then you're done. A CD which sells millions of copies is going to be stored millions of times. That's got to be more expensive to handle (ie multiple backups in different locations, all of which must be able to go online to recover a failed location if the user is to get a "no downtime" experience. All of that is cheaper than a MD5 hash calculation and a database lookup?
Lol! Australian Internet Industry Association? Who? Big time! Personally I'm not going to reconsider my views until I heard what the Scots have to say about this.
The cheapest Android phones don't cost more than a lot of dumbphones, especially on contract. Can't argue about the battery live (although, again, the dumber smartphones, with stuff turned off, last a lot longer that highend smartphones with large screens, wifi use etc etc).
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You seriously believe that Sony would disable all access to it's multiplayer games, movie sharing etc, because someone's temporarily able to use one of their devices as a dev console? I think that overblows Sony's interest in homebrew.
I'm not aware of any phones for which removing the sim card is a hassle. Almost everyone in the UK upgrades their phone every 12-24 months, and nearly all of them take the sim card out of one phone and stick it in the new one. One of the crappier networks here took to glueing them in a few years back, but other than that I have no idea what you could possibly be talking about.
It's pretty shocking. Rather than a handheld camera to capture the continuous nature of the thing there's a load of cutting here and there; missing the action and so on. It would be nice to see the whole thing in one go.
All Android bug reports are neglected. And if you try and escalate you get stupid responses saying stuff like "Don't worry about it".
> Nazi's
Why the possessive apostrophe?
Good - let them waste their money. People only go into space these days to make a point. 50 years ago it was a big deal. Now ever India can launch rockets. China too? Wow, very exciting. A rocket you say...into space? Who's got the remote?
it's swings and roundabouts, though. If you only have your own copy and it's not online somewhere, then you're at risk of theft, fire, flood, magnets, children pouring water on your pc etc etc. A professionally backed up cloud is way safer.
It's safer to say "If you care about it you have your own copy AND a copy on the cloud".
Only in the third world. Who gives a fuck what sites they visit? They're too busy trying to work out which direction to kneel.
Meanwhile, back in civilisation, you can view what you want when you want, except at work. I don't see a problem here.
> Basically, noone cares anymore.
No-one uses Gimp. Lose the stupid name, stupid UI and perhaps it'll become more popular.
> And also, language changes.
No-one understands Gimp to be a picture editing program. You have to close your laptop and go outside occasionally.
I understand Google use flash for their file handling in the browser; ie adding attachments etc. Can you browse network drives, select multiple files, get their stats/remaining disk space etc in html5?
I don't want to sound trolly as I'm not a web developer. It seems people are trying to do more and more in the browser to make the online experience a bit less crap and more useful like a normal application, but with a sandbox based-security system. I had hoped that something better would replace the browser but that doesn't seem to have happened yet. Perhaps it will...after just another 5 or 10 new standards are added to the mix...
What's tamper got to do with it? If it's a list of criminal associates, evidence about past crimes etc then the hard drive needn't get mentioned in court; it's just more info for the police and their investigation. You'd not use the info to 'prove' people were involved; you'd investigate those people and get proof via phone taps, physical evidence etc.
Plus the advantage for developing for Android and iPhone is that you're going to have more than 17 potential customers to sell your app to.
Hmm. Not blocking adds seems a bit like deliberately reading ads in newspapers because "if everyone didn't read ads, the papers would have to charge more".
Exactly. "Are Computer Crooks Renting Out Your Windows PC?" would be a better headline.
If Google etc allows ssl, and everyone uses it, and the emails themselves are encrypted, then the governments have a bit of a problem. They can outlaw it, require access etc. But then people can add proper encryption on top of that, but this won't stand out trivially because all the other emails will be encrypted anyway, so they'll have to get google to give them access to everyone's email, which will be hard to keep secret. This is probably what they're worrying about.
And another 47 series of Lost.
They'll find it pretty easy to identify people using PirateBay, p2p, blog sites and the like, and send them letters informing them of a) copyright laws, and b) their exciting new music download service.
It sounds like a very bright light, which is why it's odd/predictable that they're going for the opposite description on the endorsement linked to when they say:
Itâ(TM)s very analogous to walking from a very bright room into a very dark room.
Itâ(TM)s the inverse of blindness
etc
How do you unlock it? Second password, probably. Also, many, many secure systems don't lock you out because it's a pain in the ass to get it unlocked. If you want to mess someone up and can't guess their password then lock their account up.
Well, that or just stick it in a VM. Since running Windows (especially) in a VM I don't care any more about that sort of thing. (Every now and then I just delete it and restore from a cleanish one to be on the safe side.)
> How much more can you really improve on a tablet at this point?
Eh? There's precisely one tablet out there at the moment, in real terms. Android isn't really there yet (on the tablet, I mean, compared to the iPad 2), although it'll conquer the iPad in the near future. Now is the best time for Microsoft to launch a tablet if only they could manage a good one. Perhaps they don't think their new phone OS is something which will work on tablets and don't want another, incompatible platform?
I'm not sure I agree. You'd need to do a MD5 checksum on the file, once, as it's uploaded (this is not needed in the case of stuff bought from Amazon as they'll only need to calculate the checksum once ever). You'd need to compare that checksum against all the other checksums, once, then you're done. A CD which sells millions of copies is going to be stored millions of times. That's got to be more expensive to handle (ie multiple backups in different locations, all of which must be able to go online to recover a failed location if the user is to get a "no downtime" experience. All of that is cheaper than a MD5 hash calculation and a database lookup?
Lol! Australian Internet Industry Association? Who? Big time! Personally I'm not going to reconsider my views until I heard what the Scots have to say about this.
"Oh, meltdown. It's one of those annoying buzzwords. We prefer to call it an unrequested fission surplus..."
The cheapest Android phones don't cost more than a lot of dumbphones, especially on contract. Can't argue about the battery live (although, again, the dumber smartphones, with stuff turned off, last a lot longer that highend smartphones with large screens, wifi use etc etc).