From the summary, F-Secure: "'Apple hasn't been too interested in developing antivirus solutions for the iPhone, because there are no viruses, which of course, isn't exactly true.' .
No, indeed, only jailbroken phones were infected. Thus the obvious solution for F-Secure would be to bring out an app in Cydia or other app stores for jailbroken devices.
Of course, rather than do something, their execs prefer to spend their time whining.
Guess it's time to get a Relakks account. Basically you use a VPN account which gives you some random Swedish IP address. This will keep you off the radar of those collecting IP addresses for a while.
Not related to them or anything, I was just a satisfied customer for a few months. I gave it up when I realized I almost never downloaded movies and music anymore.
make them sign a contract saying they won't make the same device for some amount of time
Usually such contracts are very difficult to draft as well as get the other party to sign them.
Consider this. I'm an iPhone developer. I've talked to clients where they basically say: "I have a great idea for an application and I'd like to tell you but you'll have to sign so that everything I tell you cannot ever be executed by you alone".
That's rather difficult. They might mention a lot of ideas that I already had, thus limiting myself.
Or just "X". But then again, I've been modded -5 Pedantic Prick because I had said it's called either "X" or "X Window System". Kind of weird, because people would probably correct me if I would say "Windows Vistas" or "Mac OSeX":-)
Quote: "Sales of the DS, the top-selling portable game machine, were just shy of 113.5 million units at the end of the second quarter, but they're not as strong as they used to be, either. The DS's problem has been competition from Apple's iPhone, now a popular gadget for games."
A reasonably competent programmer could implement this in an hour
I don't agree or disagree with the rest of your statement, but these kinds of statements really bother me.
A reasonably competent plummer could fix my sink in an hour. I'm not counting the time he has to drive to me, the time it takes to fetch repair parts, the time it takes to talk with me, the time it takes to write me a bill, and the time to get me to pay said bill because I store bills in a drawer that gets opened every month or three.
Do I need to explain to you that your pet bug does not take an hour to implement? But instead will probably take a week?
I hope there's no single 'killer'. Diversity is a good thing
I also hope there's no single killer. Instead, I hope they band together, muttering and sulking, then wait outside when iPhone walks out of the clob at 2 AM, then gang up on him, drag him into a dark alley and do unspeakable things to iPhone.
Like (North-Western) Europe? Granted, Holland is a small country, but unlimited HSDPA getting me half to two Mb/s, nationwide, for ten euro a month.. sounds like "one day" isn't too far away for some of us.
Hehheh "nationwide"... that totally depends on your provider. You're in a lot of pain if you're on of those T-Mobile customers and can't get 3G outside major cities. Driving from Utrecht to Groningen, there's hardly any 3G coverage.
continuity of the state and its power structures is far more important than petty things like individual freedoms or human lives.
Yep, and things like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are only for people like us, not sub-human towelheads, Jews, Christians, Arabs, Catholics, Scots, Buddhists, dissidents or other noisemakers.
Users simply speak a sentence or two at a time into the iPhone and the iPhone will respond with an audible translation.
I think that should be corrected to "Users speak simply...". When using Google Translate to translate something from Dutch to French or German, I often deliberately make simple sentences that I know can be parsed easily and without having to detect double meanings.
I mean, if Google Translate cannot do a good translation WITHOUT having to interpret sounds to words, then this tech will hardly be any better.
The problem is that the trail of money ends at a Western Union or Moneygram branch.
That's not a problem! We can safely assume that said spammer lives in a 10 KM range of said branch office. A small tactical nuke should take care of it. Sure, it'll cause some collateral damage, but we're talking about spammers here.
Comparing cell phone games to console games is like pretending that internet fan fiction competes with normal books.
The quality of games on the iPhone/iPod Touch wildly varies, but NFL 2010 from Gameloft is an NFL-licensed game, and a full-3D game with playbooks and complete league-accurate rosters.
That's not comparable to poop or internet fan fiction.
As long as there is no competing hand held on the horizon [...]
No competition? Think again, buddy. The iPod Touch is a strong competitor for the Nintendo DS and the PSP. Not for all gamers, sure, but there is lots of talk for instance by Joystiq and C|Net comparing the two.
The big thing is that the games for the iPod Touch are very, very cheap compared to the prices for the DS and the PSP. The price difference for professional games like Madden 10 are astounding. Tetris is between zero and two bucks on the iPod Touch, while it grosses more than $30 on the DS. Studio GameLoft produces professional games for the iPod Touch, always around $10.
Delay in distribution means more people pushed to torrents.
No because they are cracking-down on that avenue. I just received my 3rd copyright notice this past week (1 and 2 date back to Christmas 2008)
Get a Relakks account. Secure and private P2P sharing via some Scandinavian country. Not affiliated, just someone who is sick and tired of being treated like a criminal just because I forgot to record a TV show on my DVD recorder.
I find it weird that people use 'PC' as a synonym for 'PC running Windows'
When working at Lucent (now Alcatel), colleagues referred to either a "PC" or a "workstation" meaning respectively a Windows-PC or a Solaris machine. Took some getting used to.
To be able to kick the competitor's asses without actually having a product is pretty damned impressive in my book
In my book, this is cold and calculated, and doing business in the cut-throat way. I hate it, because it can kill fledgling entrepreneurs with good ideas but no steady cashflow.
I think it's totally unethical. But then again, I probably won't get rich.
That's why to the greatest degree possible, libraries, programs, and algorithms should be auto-tuning. You can provide all the knobs you want, but people won't actually touch them.
I've seen a push for a pluggable process scheduler in the Linux kernel, starting almost two years ago. To this date, Linus has refused to include it in his kernel and I have to say I agree to that.
I love the Mini but I think it's overkill and maybe not robust enough for this. A Mini also has lots of GPU you likely will not need, older ones don't. The hard drive may also not be robust enough for continuous use.
Care to give any specifics on why you think this is the case?
Just curious, because recently, I've been getting news on people that seriously use Mac Minis as servers (Mac mini Colocation.net) and Apple now also offers an installation of OS X Server on their build-to-order Mac Mini pages.
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Is it 1984 on that motherfucking island of yours yet?
Actually I think that in almost every country, some company is harvesting IP addresses on the P2P networks. Just in case this stuff gets valuable.
From the summary, F-Secure: "'Apple hasn't been too interested in developing antivirus solutions for the iPhone, because there are no viruses, which of course, isn't exactly true.' .
No, indeed, only jailbroken phones were infected. Thus the obvious solution for F-Secure would be to bring out an app in Cydia or other app stores for jailbroken devices.
Of course, rather than do something, their execs prefer to spend their time whining.
Guess it's time to get a Relakks account. Basically you use a VPN account which gives you some random Swedish IP address. This will keep you off the radar of those collecting IP addresses for a while.
Not related to them or anything, I was just a satisfied customer for a few months. I gave it up when I realized I almost never downloaded movies and music anymore.
I was just joking, really. It actually happened once to me, though :-)
Today's hardware is a totally different story.
Totally different from the old days, yes. But today's Apple (laptop) hardware is really nothing remarkable. It ranks 4th in reliability, just above Dell, but below Sony, Asus and Toshiba:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/laptop-reliability-survey-asus-and-toshiba-win-hp-fails/
Ah yes, compare that to the user friendlyness of UNIX:
$ rm -rf * .bak
$ ls
$ ls
$ ls
make them sign a contract saying they won't make the same device for some amount of time
Usually such contracts are very difficult to draft as well as get the other party to sign them.
Consider this. I'm an iPhone developer. I've talked to clients where they basically say: "I have a great idea for an application and I'd like to tell you but you'll have to sign so that everything I tell you cannot ever be executed by you alone".
That's rather difficult. They might mention a lot of ideas that I already had, thus limiting myself.
Or just "X". But then again, I've been modded -5 Pedantic Prick because I had said it's called either "X" or "X Window System". Kind of weird, because people would probably correct me if I would say "Windows Vistas" or "Mac OSeX" :-)
I thought I'd revisit this old-ish thread and support my arguments with a link:
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2009/10/even_nintendo.html
Quote: "Sales of the DS, the top-selling portable game machine, were just shy of 113.5 million units at the end of the second quarter, but they're not as strong as they used to be, either. The DS's problem has been competition from Apple's iPhone, now a popular gadget for games."
A reasonably competent programmer could implement this in an hour
I don't agree or disagree with the rest of your statement, but these kinds of statements really bother me.
A reasonably competent plummer could fix my sink in an hour. I'm not counting the time he has to drive to me, the time it takes to fetch repair parts, the time it takes to talk with me, the time it takes to write me a bill, and the time to get me to pay said bill because I store bills in a drawer that gets opened every month or three.
Do I need to explain to you that your pet bug does not take an hour to implement? But instead will probably take a week?
To be honest, for most of the listed software, there was an RPM for RedHat 6.1. Unfortunately, the RPM depended on another RPM which we couldn't find.
I hope there's no single 'killer'. Diversity is a good thing
I also hope there's no single killer. Instead, I hope they band together, muttering and sulking, then wait outside when iPhone walks out of the clob at 2 AM, then gang up on him, drag him into a dark alley and do unspeakable things to iPhone.
Like (North-Western) Europe? Granted, Holland is a small country, but unlimited HSDPA getting me half to two Mb/s, nationwide, for ten euro a month.. sounds like "one day" isn't too far away for some of us.
Hehheh "nationwide"... that totally depends on your provider. You're in a lot of pain if you're on of those T-Mobile customers and can't get 3G outside major cities. Driving from Utrecht to Groningen, there's hardly any 3G coverage.
continuity of the state and its power structures is far more important than petty things like individual freedoms or human lives.
Yep, and things like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are only for people like us, not sub-human towelheads, Jews, Christians, Arabs, Catholics, Scots, Buddhists, dissidents or other noisemakers.
They say it is mainly trained for tourists or medical dialogues
Well, that kind of supports my point that it will best work with simple input.
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Users simply speak a sentence or two at a time into the iPhone and the iPhone will respond with an audible translation.
I think that should be corrected to "Users speak simply...". When using Google Translate to translate something from Dutch to French or German, I often deliberately make simple sentences that I know can be parsed easily and without having to detect double meanings.
I mean, if Google Translate cannot do a good translation WITHOUT having to interpret sounds to words, then this tech will hardly be any better.
Yeah yeah I should be more positive...
Each morning, at 10:45 AM, Alfred Sirleaf wakes up
That's the kind of job I want.
I think that is too early to be healthy. This guy is a hard worker. I usually wake up at the crack of noon.
The problem is that the trail of money ends at a Western Union or Moneygram branch.
That's not a problem! We can safely assume that said spammer lives in a 10 KM range of said branch office. A small tactical nuke should take care of it. Sure, it'll cause some collateral damage, but we're talking about spammers here.
Comparing cell phone games to console games is like pretending that internet fan fiction competes with normal books.
The quality of games on the iPhone/iPod Touch wildly varies, but NFL 2010 from Gameloft is an NFL-licensed game, and a full-3D game with playbooks and complete league-accurate rosters.
That's not comparable to poop or internet fan fiction.
As long as there is no competing hand held on the horizon [...]
No competition? Think again, buddy. The iPod Touch is a strong competitor for the Nintendo DS and the PSP. Not for all gamers, sure, but there is lots of talk for instance by Joystiq and C|Net comparing the two.
The big thing is that the games for the iPod Touch are very, very cheap compared to the prices for the DS and the PSP. The price difference for professional games like Madden 10 are astounding. Tetris is between zero and two bucks on the iPod Touch, while it grosses more than $30 on the DS. Studio GameLoft produces professional games for the iPod Touch, always around $10.
If I was Nintendo, I'd piss my pants.
Delay in distribution means more people pushed to torrents.
No because they are cracking-down on that avenue. I just received my 3rd copyright notice this past week (1 and 2 date back to Christmas 2008)
Get a Relakks account. Secure and private P2P sharing via some Scandinavian country. Not affiliated, just someone who is sick and tired of being treated like a criminal just because I forgot to record a TV show on my DVD recorder.
I find it weird that people use 'PC' as a synonym for 'PC running Windows'
When working at Lucent (now Alcatel), colleagues referred to either a "PC" or a "workstation" meaning respectively a Windows-PC or a Solaris machine. Took some getting used to.
To be able to kick the competitor's asses without actually having a product is pretty damned impressive in my book
In my book, this is cold and calculated, and doing business in the cut-throat way. I hate it, because it can kill fledgling entrepreneurs with good ideas but no steady cashflow.
I think it's totally unethical. But then again, I probably won't get rich.
That's why to the greatest degree possible, libraries, programs, and algorithms should be auto-tuning. You can provide all the knobs you want, but people won't actually touch them.
I've seen a push for a pluggable process scheduler in the Linux kernel, starting almost two years ago. To this date, Linus has refused to include it in his kernel and I have to say I agree to that.
I love the Mini but I think it's overkill and maybe not robust enough for this. A Mini also has lots of GPU you likely will not need, older ones don't. The hard drive may also not be robust enough for continuous use.
Care to give any specifics on why you think this is the case?
Just curious, because recently, I've been getting news on people that seriously use Mac Minis as servers (Mac mini Colocation.net) and Apple now also offers an installation of OS X Server on their build-to-order Mac Mini pages.