During the backup=>update OS=>restore procedure, VLC is magically lost
Unless they deleted the App from their iTunes library, they didn't lose anything. VLC may not work in iOS5 (I have no idea if thats true, just guessing, I don't use VLC), but it will still be there.
All videos that were specifically associated with VLC would be in the VLC app directory, if the App isn't there, neither are the videos, no space is lost.
What you're describing doesn't happen in any normal situation. You may have seen someone experience a bug, but what you're describing is not 'how it works' in any way.
Yea, until Apple bought it you could buy Siri on the App store for other iOS devices as well. No one said it was unique or special.
'Voice search' is not new. Siri is not voice search. Siri makes your phone a PDA in the truest sense of the word, you just talk to the thing and 19 times out of 20, it'll just do what you tell it, or at least understand your request and respond accordingly. This isn't text to speech then pump it off to internal search or Google, this turns 'Im drunk' into 'here are nearby cab services'.
The difference is that Apple has made Siri far more usable than any alternative out there, and while you may have been able to get what you want out of the app you're using, I highly doubt that it was nearly as good as Siri at parsing natural language questions. No, its not impossible, its just the difference between Apple and Android devs. As its already been said, Android is the 'we have awesome tech specs but none of it is actually finished or works as well as we'd like to pretend' versus Apple which is 'Not the geekiest of geeky, but works almost perfectly for every non-geek on the planet, and fine for most geeks that don't have their head up someone elses ass because of their rabid fanboyism'
Its also worth nothing, there are several other apps just like Siri on the iPhone, I presume at least some of them are available for Android, I know one of them is for Blackberry.
I'm sorry you don't see why Apple wins these sorts of things, if you learn to look at things objectively without prejudice it'll probably help.
Note: I write mobile apps for both iOS and Android, while I'd rather dev for Android for my own PERSONAL projects, doing it professionally sucks, its quicker in most cases than iOS dev it seems, but you just can't make an Android app feel as polished.
who would've figured out that double-tapping the Home button on the lock screen would load Siri?
Everyone, the phone tells you not too long after its activated how to use Siri.
That to move icons, group or delete apps on the home screen you have to hold them until they wiggle, and to group them you have to drag one onto another?
Everyone, the phone tells you as soon as you go back to the home screen after installing your first app.
Intuitive my butt...
Well, thats just because you're an ignorant idiot who either can't read or hasn't actually owned an iPhone so you really don't have any clue what the fuck you're talking about:)
My wife is not a computer geek and she's had absolutely no problem discovering pretty much every feature the phone has just by using it for a day, I've yet to have anyone show me or my wife a 'trick' for iOS that we don't already know. It is rather intuitive, even if you're too stupid to get it.
This is an example of people talking about security that don't actually understand it.
The servers error messages divulging information via ERROR MESSAGES is a implementation mistake, not a design error of the protocol.
Its like probing websites to determine if an account exists by trying to login and looking at the difference between 'bad password' responses. A good implementation always says the same thing regardless of why authentication fails 'invalid user name or password'. It doesn't tell you which one is wrong. On the other hand, what this article is about is a particular server/parser implementation that instead responds and says 'your password is 8 characters, you only gave us 3, try again!'
Okay, so just for reference, the rest of us read this sentence and see 'I have no idea what I'm talking about what so ever'.
Israel most certainly profiles, and they are damn proud of it, as we should do and be.
Not all Muslims want to kill Americans, but it is a fact that there are more Muslims that want to kill American's than Hindu's. Thats just a fucking fact, so if you know someone is Hindu, you know there are lower odds that they are going to kill and American than the Muslim standing next to them.
It doesn't mean the Muslim is a terrorist. It doesn't mean the Hindu ISN'T a terrorist. It does allow you to more efficiently look for actual terrorists, but it requires that the people looking are capable of keeping their personal prejudices aside and remembering that the Muslim could just be a guy or woman trying to travel somewhere without being fucked with... JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE.
Car analogy: When a hit and run is committed by a black Mercedes on MLK Boulevard in Compton, you don't go looking for a red Ferrari in Hollywood. You look for and examine Mercedes in or near Compton.
Profiling doesn't establish an answer to a question, it just allows you too look more efficiently, and in war, you must accept that the profiles may change. If Palistine started recruiting young Israeli girls for attacks, Israel would start looking closer at their own young girls.
Lets not confuse the fact that Israel has been essentially 'at war' on its home turf for 60 years with America who hasn't had a war on its own turf in hundreds of years. We've had two attacks that weren't even that bad in the grand scheme of things, we're just so disconnected from what terrorism ACTUALLY is that we freak out and end up with the TSA.
There was one in Israel not too long ago that was arrested, but he was only an attempted suicide bomber, as his bomb fizzled and just kinda burned him a little if I recall correctly.
And just to be REALLY pedantic, they've probably 'arrested' suicide bombers too for other reasons after the fact, make it part of a criminal investigation so you can go find out more about them and who they worked with and such.
I know what you're saying and I'm not really disagreeing, just being a pedant:)
Sigh, is using the Internet REALLY that freaking hard?
Google informed you of your account conflict the first time you signed in to the website after the change, but you were in too big of a hurry to bother reading the message.
You also seem to be too lazy to search for yourself which indicates that you don't deserve help in the first place, but...
And exactly how does this ACTUALLY change ANYTHING for you? Other than a political viewpoint about the software, how has it changed to effect you in any way what so ever?
The Growl developers are going to come to regret their decision.
Unlikely.
99.999% of the code is written by the primary developers, very little of it has been 'contributed' in any sense of the word, most of the 'contributed' has been related to bug fixes and such, thats not going to stop.
No one has in the past 5 or 6 years has replaced it or even really tried to make an alternative, you think its going to happen now just because its no longer open? Thats funny. Have you ever even written any software?
The reality of it is this is more likely done to combat a problem that Open Source has to deal with. People using OSS software in bad ways.
For instances, Adobe Creative Suite 5 installs Growl without asking the user or without an option to turn it off. The Growl authors are upset about this and 'are working on ways to mitigate the problem'...
And do you know what making it closed source and only available on the app store does? Stops Adobe and people like them cold.
About 10 people ACTUALLY give a shit that growl is going closed source because they happen to use it and are OSS zealots, the other hundreds of thousands of people who use it will neither give a flying fuck or likely even be aware that something has changed.
The world doesn't revolve around FOSS, once you get out of high school things change there little guy.
Uhm, lookup promissory estoppel and stop being an ignorant moron.
And Mattel versus CPhack wasn't a case where the license was revoked later, it was NEVER GRANTED IN THE FIRST PLACE. The cphack authors used code they didn't write... i.e. code that was part of cyberpatrol itself.
Again, you have no idea what you're talking about.
In fact, the downstream ('end-users') may ultimately get a license that is more restrictive on further development
So you're saying that its dangerous because at some point in the future the upstream developer may make the changes closed source and then you won't have access to them? Thats all you can be saying since the license won't/can't be retroactive and take away source that you already have.
So your bitching that you MAY LOSE FUTURE WORK...
So what is the upstream author dies? Does that make you all scared and freighted as well? Thats a fact, its going to happen, the upstream author WILL die at some point, but he may never close the source.
You're argument is retarded, it rests around the idea that you are losing something just because you aren't continuing to get something for free. You can not 'lose' anything with a BSD license, the worst that can happen is that you no longer get new stuff. No one can make BSD code 'closed', only their own modifications on top of it.
GPL is the most restrictive license thats considered 'open source' by the majority of people, I do not espouse the merits of using GPL, I do not push my political agenda on others like you do. You also utterly fail to understand the license you're fanboying for and the licenses you're arguing against.
In short, you don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about
This is an oversimplification of the issue. BSD protects the freedoms of only the next entity using the source code; GPL protects freedoms of all entities that might use the code.
Wrong.
BSD protects the freedoms of the source code it covers for ANYONE using it. It does not drag all the other code someone else creates down with it. That is what GPL does, it covers itself, and forces itself on anything else thats anywhere remotely close to it.
If I take a copy of BSD source and make changes and do not redistribute those changes in source form you have lost exactly nothing, nodda, zilch, zero.
You have not also been given rights to the NEW work I did, but you have lost nothing, all of the old stuff is still there for you to do whatever you want with.
One is CLEARLY more free, unless you're a zealot... which you are.
BSD allows you to do the exact same thing as GPL, GPL does not allow you to do the same thing as BSD licensed software. Its really not difficult to understand.
No it doesn't, not even a little. There is nothing that prevents any form of OSS from existing on the AppStore except perhaps some retarded interpretation of GPL.
Going on top of that, the actual copyright owners... the ONLY ones who can make it closed source... can also make an exception or special license to deal with the AppStore, like 'its GPL for everyone outside of our organization, and we'll do whatever the fuck with it internally because well, we can'.
Again, licensing isn't even a little bit confusing or difficult to understand unless you're trying to make it into something its not.
I actually developed an app for Android using the x86 version to get it going, bought an Archos tablet, and realized it was impossible to make the damn thing not laggy and unnatural feeling... okay, shitty tablet/android combo I think... so I just went shopping for tablets at local stores... if you can show me an android tablet that doesn't feel laggier than WoW over a 2400 baud modem I'll consider what you're saying, but the reality of it is, Android fucking sucks for user interfaces on every table I've seen.
So what did I do? Put a PC running Windows in my boat, cost was about the same as a decent tablet and my setup is... far more robust.
Android tablets suck, sorry to break the hearts of fanboys everywhere, but your suggestion is a non-starter for anyone who isn't just 'OMGZ IT RUNZ LINUX' and actually cares about how it works.
Do you have any idea how much money is made by systems running on BeOS? I'm guessing the answer is no, just the radio stations alone that use BeOS are impressive. Its name has changed but its hardly dead.
But not their date of birth. Age verification is in fact a requirement in America. Typically however, its not an issue for anyone except young kids getting their first jobs, after that its generally clear you're old enough so it gets overlooked, but most HR departments now days even want copies of drivers licenses... which of course gives away your age.
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And you've not used an iPhone much, voice commands have been there for years as well. Siri IS NOT voice commands like you're thinking.
The hardest part for my wife using Siri was to stop treating it like a computer and just talk to it like a person.
You say: Create a reminder for when I leave the house or within the next 2 hours to check on the neighbors cat.
And it reminds you when that happens. Its not dictation, its a freaking PDA in the literal sense.
Android had voice recognition and commands long ago
So did iOS and Windows Mobile, Siri is not just voice commands any more than Microsoft Office is just a text editor like notepad.
So what you're saying is Iris shows that Siri is special because Siri is the only one thats polished?
During the backup=>update OS=>restore procedure, VLC is magically lost
Unless they deleted the App from their iTunes library, they didn't lose anything. VLC may not work in iOS5 (I have no idea if thats true, just guessing, I don't use VLC), but it will still be there.
All videos that were specifically associated with VLC would be in the VLC app directory, if the App isn't there, neither are the videos, no space is lost.
What you're describing doesn't happen in any normal situation. You may have seen someone experience a bug, but what you're describing is not 'how it works' in any way.
Yea, until Apple bought it you could buy Siri on the App store for other iOS devices as well. No one said it was unique or special.
'Voice search' is not new. Siri is not voice search. Siri makes your phone a PDA in the truest sense of the word, you just talk to the thing and 19 times out of 20, it'll just do what you tell it, or at least understand your request and respond accordingly. This isn't text to speech then pump it off to internal search or Google, this turns 'Im drunk' into 'here are nearby cab services'.
The difference is that Apple has made Siri far more usable than any alternative out there, and while you may have been able to get what you want out of the app you're using, I highly doubt that it was nearly as good as Siri at parsing natural language questions. No, its not impossible, its just the difference between Apple and Android devs. As its already been said, Android is the 'we have awesome tech specs but none of it is actually finished or works as well as we'd like to pretend' versus Apple which is 'Not the geekiest of geeky, but works almost perfectly for every non-geek on the planet, and fine for most geeks that don't have their head up someone elses ass because of their rabid fanboyism'
Its also worth nothing, there are several other apps just like Siri on the iPhone, I presume at least some of them are available for Android, I know one of them is for Blackberry.
I'm sorry you don't see why Apple wins these sorts of things, if you learn to look at things objectively without prejudice it'll probably help.
Note: I write mobile apps for both iOS and Android, while I'd rather dev for Android for my own PERSONAL projects, doing it professionally sucks, its quicker in most cases than iOS dev it seems, but you just can't make an Android app feel as polished.
who would've figured out that double-tapping the Home button on the lock screen would load Siri?
Everyone, the phone tells you not too long after its activated how to use Siri.
That to move icons, group or delete apps on the home screen you have to hold them until they wiggle, and to group them you have to drag one onto another?
Everyone, the phone tells you as soon as you go back to the home screen after installing your first app.
Intuitive my butt...
Well, thats just because you're an ignorant idiot who either can't read or hasn't actually owned an iPhone so you really don't have any clue what the fuck you're talking about :)
My wife is not a computer geek and she's had absolutely no problem discovering pretty much every feature the phone has just by using it for a day, I've yet to have anyone show me or my wife a 'trick' for iOS that we don't already know. It is rather intuitive, even if you're too stupid to get it.
This is an example of people talking about security that don't actually understand it.
The servers error messages divulging information via ERROR MESSAGES is a implementation mistake, not a design error of the protocol.
Its like probing websites to determine if an account exists by trying to login and looking at the difference between 'bad password' responses. A good implementation always says the same thing regardless of why authentication fails 'invalid user name or password'. It doesn't tell you which one is wrong. On the other hand, what this article is about is a particular server/parser implementation that instead responds and says 'your password is 8 characters, you only gave us 3, try again!'
Not hard to resolve.
The .NET framework includes the C# compiler for free, csc.exe.
The ability to compile C# code in .NET apps has been available since before 1.0 release. This isn't new, just a different way of doing it.
C# has always supported compiling additional code at runtime.
I've had it in projects since the 1.0 release.
They may be redoing the structure and making it easier to do, but doing it isn't new.
Actually, suicide is illegal in every state in the US, so yes, you are being forced to live.
There's no racial profiling
Okay, so just for reference, the rest of us read this sentence and see 'I have no idea what I'm talking about what so ever'.
Israel most certainly profiles, and they are damn proud of it, as we should do and be.
Not all Muslims want to kill Americans, but it is a fact that there are more Muslims that want to kill American's than Hindu's. Thats just a fucking fact, so if you know someone is Hindu, you know there are lower odds that they are going to kill and American than the Muslim standing next to them.
It doesn't mean the Muslim is a terrorist. It doesn't mean the Hindu ISN'T a terrorist. It does allow you to more efficiently look for actual terrorists, but it requires that the people looking are capable of keeping their personal prejudices aside and remembering that the Muslim could just be a guy or woman trying to travel somewhere without being fucked with ... JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE.
Car analogy:
When a hit and run is committed by a black Mercedes on MLK Boulevard in Compton, you don't go looking for a red Ferrari in Hollywood. You look for and examine Mercedes in or near Compton.
Profiling doesn't establish an answer to a question, it just allows you too look more efficiently, and in war, you must accept that the profiles may change. If Palistine started recruiting young Israeli girls for attacks, Israel would start looking closer at their own young girls.
Lets not confuse the fact that Israel has been essentially 'at war' on its home turf for 60 years with America who hasn't had a war on its own turf in hundreds of years. We've had two attacks that weren't even that bad in the grand scheme of things, we're just so disconnected from what terrorism ACTUALLY is that we freak out and end up with the TSA.
There was one in Israel not too long ago that was arrested, but he was only an attempted suicide bomber, as his bomb fizzled and just kinda burned him a little if I recall correctly.
And just to be REALLY pedantic, they've probably 'arrested' suicide bombers too for other reasons after the fact, make it part of a criminal investigation so you can go find out more about them and who they worked with and such.
I know what you're saying and I'm not really disagreeing, just being a pedant :)
Sigh, is using the Internet REALLY that freaking hard?
Google informed you of your account conflict the first time you signed in to the website after the change, but you were in too big of a hurry to bother reading the message.
You also seem to be too lazy to search for yourself which indicates that you don't deserve help in the first place, but ...
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=conflicting+accounts
Your old account is still there and 100% usable, it just requires that the user have half a clue, so you're probably SOL.
And exactly how does this ACTUALLY change ANYTHING for you? Other than a political viewpoint about the software, how has it changed to effect you in any way what so ever?
Considering Apple already has an alternative and has had for years (since probably the OSX release after Growl became popular IIRC) ... 0?
The Growl developers are going to come to regret their decision.
Unlikely.
99.999% of the code is written by the primary developers, very little of it has been 'contributed' in any sense of the word, most of the 'contributed' has been related to bug fixes and such, thats not going to stop.
No one has in the past 5 or 6 years has replaced it or even really tried to make an alternative, you think its going to happen now just because its no longer open? Thats funny. Have you ever even written any software?
The reality of it is this is more likely done to combat a problem that Open Source has to deal with. People using OSS software in bad ways.
For instances, Adobe Creative Suite 5 installs Growl without asking the user or without an option to turn it off. The Growl authors are upset about this and 'are working on ways to mitigate the problem' ...
And do you know what making it closed source and only available on the app store does? Stops Adobe and people like them cold.
About 10 people ACTUALLY give a shit that growl is going closed source because they happen to use it and are OSS zealots, the other hundreds of thousands of people who use it will neither give a flying fuck or likely even be aware that something has changed.
The world doesn't revolve around FOSS, once you get out of high school things change there little guy.
Uhm, lookup promissory estoppel and stop being an ignorant moron.
And Mattel versus CPhack wasn't a case where the license was revoked later, it was NEVER GRANTED IN THE FIRST PLACE. The cphack authors used code they didn't write ... i.e. code that was part of cyberpatrol itself.
Again, you have no idea what you're talking about.
In fact, the downstream ('end-users') may ultimately get a license that is more restrictive on further development
So you're saying that its dangerous because at some point in the future the upstream developer may make the changes closed source and then you won't have access to them? Thats all you can be saying since the license won't/can't be retroactive and take away source that you already have.
So your bitching that you MAY LOSE FUTURE WORK ...
So what is the upstream author dies? Does that make you all scared and freighted as well? Thats a fact, its going to happen, the upstream author WILL die at some point, but he may never close the source.
You're argument is retarded, it rests around the idea that you are losing something just because you aren't continuing to get something for free. You can not 'lose' anything with a BSD license, the worst that can happen is that you no longer get new stuff. No one can make BSD code 'closed', only their own modifications on top of it.
GPL is the most restrictive license thats considered 'open source' by the majority of people, I do not espouse the merits of using GPL, I do not push my political agenda on others like you do. You also utterly fail to understand the license you're fanboying for and the licenses you're arguing against.
In short, you don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about
This is an oversimplification of the issue. BSD protects the freedoms of only the next entity using the source code; GPL protects freedoms of all entities that might use the code.
Wrong.
BSD protects the freedoms of the source code it covers for ANYONE using it. It does not drag all the other code someone else creates down with it. That is what GPL does, it covers itself, and forces itself on anything else thats anywhere remotely close to it.
If I take a copy of BSD source and make changes and do not redistribute those changes in source form you have lost exactly nothing, nodda, zilch, zero.
You have not also been given rights to the NEW work I did, but you have lost nothing, all of the old stuff is still there for you to do whatever you want with.
One is CLEARLY more free, unless you're a zealot ... which you are.
BSD allows you to do the exact same thing as GPL, GPL does not allow you to do the same thing as BSD licensed software. Its really not difficult to understand.
No it doesn't, not even a little. There is nothing that prevents any form of OSS from existing on the AppStore except perhaps some retarded interpretation of GPL.
Going on top of that, the actual copyright owners ... the ONLY ones who can make it closed source ... can also make an exception or special license to deal with the AppStore, like 'its GPL for everyone outside of our organization, and we'll do whatever the fuck with it internally because well, we can'.
Again, licensing isn't even a little bit confusing or difficult to understand unless you're trying to make it into something its not.
faking a touch screen to look like a mouse
And why would you do that?
I've yet to run into a GUI system that DIDN'T support direct coordinate inputs ... i.e. easy touch screen support.
Windows does, X does, Photon (from QNX) does. Pretty much everything that matters does.
Windows CE, which is what you'd actually use in this context has run on ARM processors for what? 12-15 years?
Because you want fluid controls?
I actually developed an app for Android using the x86 version to get it going, bought an Archos tablet, and realized it was impossible to make the damn thing not laggy and unnatural feeling ... okay, shitty tablet/android combo I think ... so I just went shopping for tablets at local stores ... if you can show me an android tablet that doesn't feel laggier than WoW over a 2400 baud modem I'll consider what you're saying, but the reality of it is, Android fucking sucks for user interfaces on every table I've seen.
So what did I do? Put a PC running Windows in my boat, cost was about the same as a decent tablet and my setup is ... far more robust.
Android tablets suck, sorry to break the hearts of fanboys everywhere, but your suggestion is a non-starter for anyone who isn't just 'OMGZ IT RUNZ LINUX' and actually cares about how it works.
Do you have any idea how much money is made by systems running on BeOS? I'm guessing the answer is no, just the radio stations alone that use BeOS are impressive. Its name has changed but its hardly dead.
it is illegal to ask an applicant's age.
But not their date of birth. Age verification is in fact a requirement in America. Typically however, its not an issue for anyone except young kids getting their first jobs, after that its generally clear you're old enough so it gets overlooked, but most HR departments now days even want copies of drivers licenses ... which of course gives away your age.