First you have to make the distinction between "hacked" and "unlocked". Many of us have "hacked" our iPhones to add third party applications, customize the interface, etc., but have not unlocked it to use with a non-ATT SIM card. It's the unlocking that really screws you. I've been reading all the forums on this to decide what to do about mine, and the vast majority of people who have hacked but not unlocked are able to apply the update with no problems; however it does restore your iPhone to factory state and you lose all your third party apps. The new firmware has not been cracked yet, so you can't as of yet reinstall them.
I have read isolated reports of people who have hacked/not unlocked phones being bricked and even nonhacked phones. In my reading it seems most of these folks had some sort of SIM issue prior to the update, e.g. replacing the SIM with a nonoriginal for some reason or another.
The unofficial apple weblog is reporting that despite warnings posted all over the apple store genius bar employees have been quietly swapping out bricked phones.
Fortunately Adobe is not the only one capable of writing software. Since when do we here on slashdot rely on MicroSoft and Adobe to write our software? iPhone runs on UNIX.
And since it's is OS X, most of the Cocoa frameworks are there, you just have to compile for ARM.
I currently have about 20 native apps on my iPhone, including an AIM client, IRC, Text Editor, NES Emulator, Terminal with ssh, voice notes, a sketch pad, ebook reader, dictionary, Tetris, perl, ruby, tcl, even VNC.
I don't think most Apple customers feel "hostility" from Apple.
Yes, Apple has officially made their position against unlocking hacks. (Is this a surprise to anyone?). But on a happier note, they have taken a "neutral" stance towards third-party applications. From an interview with Apple's Greg Joswiak:
He said Apple doesn't oppose native application development, which was new to me. Rather, Apple takes a neutral stance - they're not going to stop anyone from writing apps, and they're not going to maliciously design software updates to break the native apps, but they're not going to care if their software updates accidentally break the native apps either. He very carefully left the door open to a further change in this policy, too, saying that Apple is always re-examining its perspective on these sorts of things.
Meanwhile, Jobs acknowledged that third-party developers have started to produce several intriguing, yet unofficial iPhone applications. He said Apple is looking at some of them closely, especially those that don't require a connection to the Internet. It's likely that those applications would be the first of any to receive an official endorsement from Apple, according to Jobs' comments, as those that require Internet access could threaten the 'high standard' of experience customers have come to expect with the iPhone.
My only question is will there be third-party apps to enhance it?
iPhone hacking has come a long way. I am currently running several native apps on mine, including a terminal with ssh, AIM, voice recording, IRC (needs some work), text editor, preview app, some games, etc., all through a nice little package management utility (http://iphone.nullriver.com/beta/).
I image it won't be long before people get things like Mail.app, google maps, and the other iPhone apps working on the iPhone Touch. I don't know of any reason it can't do everything the iPhone does with the exception of making phone calls and EDGE.
It's worth noting that the Indian classical music system, while also focusing on the same 12 intervals, further divides the scale into 22 smaller intervals or "shrutis". As others have pointed out, there is a logic and physical basis for the 12 notes, but also cultural factors have clearly played into this as well.
I know you can email them. But he actually said "we've added "Send to Web Gallery" on your iPhone". That to me sounds like it is going to actually say that as on option for the photo. And, according to the other reply to my post, it does for those with.mac subs.
"Out with your iPhone, we've added "Send to Web Gallery" on your iPhone. Pick one, emails to special address, that photo will show up on your web gallery. Can tell friends about it, View others' web galleries right on your iPhone, great iPhone experience, fully integrated."
Too lazy to balance the new class all the way through?
Well, I for one am too lazy to level a whole new character up to level 70, but it would be nice to have another one to play. Especially
as they raise the level cap it becomes more and more time consuming to create a new character that can participate in the endgame, which is where a lot of the new content is focused.
It makes sense as they bring us farther from level one to give more options for expanding your gameplay without starting all the way from scratch.
... or the Matrix, or Battlestar Gallactica, or I Robot.. the list goes on. Our subconscious has been warning us about this in the form of fiction for years and the warnings have been getting louder and louder....
They were testing the so-called "generation effect" where recall results in greater learning than observation. I am not aware of any other test of this in monkeys
and there are none cited in their article either. A quick search on pubmed does not reveal anything either. Would you clarify what you think they and I have overlooked?
Not too unusual for a psych experiment with monkeys.
Rather than gather a large number of subjects, they repeated the experiment many times within each subject. The two monkeys (Macduff and Oberon)
each studied 18-20 lists. On the fourth and final day of testing, recall for the lists for which they were given hints was close to 0%. For the lists where they were not given hints, recall was about 50% for one monkey and 70% for the other, a statistically significant effect within each subject.
The point is that the act of recalling the information is a powerfull learning event. Don't look at the other side of the flash card too quickly.
You buy this phone for its unique design -- its look, its thin, smooth lines are the product. If one of the consequences of that design is that the battery is not user-accessible then so be it. I would invite someone who wants to have both features to design a phone themselves.
The only thing that comes close to being the basis for a lawsuit is his claim that this was an undisclosed feature of this product. Wait, no it's still not even close for reasons others have described.
Oh, and as for your claim that my example was carictured, I'd note that at WPT final tables, a standard pf raise is nearly always for 20+% of their chips, thus meaning that anybody who chooses to defend is essentially in a 'push/fold' situation.
First, this is largely due to the poor structure of WPT tournaments which are really created as a television spectacle. Second, notice that what you are really saying is that in tournaments with rising blind levels there are times in the endgame when the game becomes more like limit hold'em --- the options are reduced. It's worth noting that this case is the "easier" subset of the situations encountered in NLHE.
Also, these bots are not attempting to win tournaments, they are playing cash games with static blind levels.
And besides NLHE would be dead boring to television audiences if they saw how it really played out. It's only exciting because there's a huge amount of money on the line, and they know that better than 50% of the hands they watch will involve significant action.
Agreed. Although for you and I it is probably exciting to watch the raw unedited real thing. I watched 12 hours of the WSOP final table live, unedited, and without hole cards myself.:-)
I'm not going to argue which is more exciting, since that is up to your personal preferences, although the evidence available to us is that NLHE has achieved a much larger audience than LHE.
About the computational issue you are actually incorrect here, and there is an objective fact of the matter. The reason most poker AI only attempts Heads Up Limit poker at this point is because there are more degrees of freedom in NLHE. At each decision point in a limit match the only options are bet, call, or fold. In no-limit, the decision tree is much larger because the "bet" option actually contains a number of sub-options (basically, how much to bet). Also as you add options for your opponent (and add opponents) the problem gets increasingly harder.
Sit-n-go's represent a special case of the problem, and there are computations that can help you deal with certain situations. The Independent Chip Model (ICM), for example, is a useful strategy but does not represent an actual computational solution to the game.
Well the main point I was making was about computational complexity.
But I actually enjoy limit games quite a bit, although I don't think it has the same mass appeal for watching. The fact that all your chips can be at risk at any moment in no limit adds a made-for-tv drama that you just aren't going to get from limit. I don't agree however that NL cannot have nuance, you have just chosen a very caricatured example.
ESPN did televise the mixed event from the WSOP this year, a step in the right direction?
Keep in mind these bots play Limit hold'em, where the size of the bets is fixed. No-limit hold'em,
the kind you typically see on tv is a much more complex problem - size of bets add more potentially misleading
information and more choices to make. (that's why its more exciting to watch than limit)
Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, which is directed at the companies that host gambling sites
Actually the law is directed not at companies that host gambling sites, but rather at companies that transfer money to and from gambling sites. Since Linden effectively does both, they would be affected by the law.
Posting this from my iPhone. I had trouble activating at first too.
After waiting 10 hours I figured out that the problem was with
transfering my old verizon phone number. I asked them to cancel the
activation and started again with a new number -- went through
immediately.
You cant do anything with the phone until its activated,
no ipod, photos, nothing except calling 911. So the wait
can be frustrating, and its very hard to get info out of ATT.
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First you have to make the distinction between "hacked" and "unlocked". Many of us have "hacked" our iPhones to add third party applications, customize the interface, etc., but have not unlocked it to use with a non-ATT SIM card. It's the unlocking that really screws you. I've been reading all the forums on this to decide what to do about mine, and the vast majority of people who have hacked but not unlocked are able to apply the update with no problems; however it does restore your iPhone to factory state and you lose all your third party apps. The new firmware has not been cracked yet, so you can't as of yet reinstall them.
I have read isolated reports of people who have hacked/not unlocked phones being bricked and even nonhacked phones. In my reading it seems most of these folks had some sort of SIM issue prior to the update, e.g. replacing the SIM with a nonoriginal for some reason or another.
The unofficial apple weblog is reporting that despite warnings posted all over the apple store genius bar employees have been quietly swapping out bricked phones.
Fortunately Adobe is not the only one capable of writing software. Since when do we here on slashdot rely on MicroSoft and Adobe to write our software? iPhone runs on UNIX.
And since it's is OS X, most of the Cocoa frameworks are there, you just have to compile for ARM. I currently have about 20 native apps on my iPhone, including an AIM client, IRC, Text Editor, NES Emulator, Terminal with ssh, voice notes, a sketch pad, ebook reader, dictionary, Tetris, perl, ruby, tcl, even VNC.
I don't think most Apple customers feel "hostility" from Apple.
At the UK iPhone launch Steve basically reiterated this stance:
I image it won't be long before people get things like Mail.app, google maps, and the other iPhone apps working on the iPhone Touch. I don't know of any reason it can't do everything the iPhone does with the exception of making phone calls and EDGE.
It's worth noting that the Indian classical music system, while also focusing on the same 12 intervals, further divides the scale into 22 smaller intervals or "shrutis". As others have pointed out, there is a logic and physical basis for the 12 notes, but also cultural factors have clearly played into this as well.
No, Europe is just the perspective of the article summary. U.S journalists were invited to the event at the Moscone Center, while the Europeans are being webcast in.
Word on the street is they plan to announce just that, this week: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/08/31/appl e_to_launch_ringtone_service_for_iphone_users.html
Apparently it was an inside job. Someone involved with fixing the ATM system hacked it. Full story here.
I know you can email them. But he actually said "we've added "Send to Web Gallery" on your iPhone". That to me sounds like it is going to actually say that as on option for the photo. And, according to the other reply to my post, it does for those with .mac subs.
It makes sense as they bring us farther from level one to give more options for expanding your gameplay without starting all the way from scratch.
You still have the option to create as many level 1 characters as you like. :-)
Except that the research was done at Columbia. The guy just made the wise decision to come to UCLA when he was done. :-)
What research are you thinking of?
They were testing the so-called "generation effect" where recall results in greater learning than observation. I am not aware of any other test of this in monkeys and there are none cited in their article either. A quick search on pubmed does not reveal anything either. Would you clarify what you think they and I have overlooked?
Not too unusual for a psych experiment with monkeys.
Rather than gather a large number of subjects, they repeated the experiment many times within each subject. The two monkeys (Macduff and Oberon) each studied 18-20 lists. On the fourth and final day of testing, recall for the lists for which they were given hints was close to 0%. For the lists where they were not given hints, recall was about 50% for one monkey and 70% for the other, a statistically significant effect within each subject.
The point is that the act of recalling the information is a powerfull learning event. Don't look at the other side of the flash card too quickly.
You buy this phone for its unique design -- its look, its thin, smooth lines are the product. If one of the consequences of that design is that the battery is not user-accessible then so be it. I would invite someone who wants to have both features to design a phone themselves.
The only thing that comes close to being the basis for a lawsuit is his claim that this was an undisclosed feature of this product. Wait, no it's still not even close for reasons others have described.
Also, these bots are not attempting to win tournaments, they are playing cash games with static blind levels.
I'm not going to argue which is more exciting, since that is up to your personal preferences, although the evidence available to us is that NLHE has achieved a much larger audience than LHE.
About the computational issue you are actually incorrect here, and there is an objective fact of the matter. The reason most poker AI only attempts Heads Up Limit poker at this point is because there are more degrees of freedom in NLHE. At each decision point in a limit match the only options are bet, call, or fold. In no-limit, the decision tree is much larger because the "bet" option actually contains a number of sub-options (basically, how much to bet). Also as you add options for your opponent (and add opponents) the problem gets increasingly harder.
Sit-n-go's represent a special case of the problem, and there are computations that can help you deal with certain situations. The Independent Chip Model (ICM), for example, is a useful strategy but does not represent an actual computational solution to the game.
Well the main point I was making was about computational complexity.
But I actually enjoy limit games quite a bit, although I don't think it has the same mass appeal for watching. The fact that all your chips can be at risk at any moment in no limit adds a made-for-tv drama that you just aren't going to get from limit. I don't agree however that NL cannot have nuance, you have just chosen a very caricatured example.
ESPN did televise the mixed event from the WSOP this year, a step in the right direction?
Keep in mind these bots play Limit hold'em, where the size of the bets is fixed. No-limit hold'em, the kind you typically see on tv is a much more complex problem - size of bets add more potentially misleading information and more choices to make. (that's why its more exciting to watch than limit)
Posting this from my iPhone. I had trouble activating at first too. After waiting 10 hours I figured out that the problem was with transfering my old verizon phone number. I asked them to cancel the activation and started again with a new number -- went through immediately.
You cant do anything with the phone until its activated, no ipod, photos, nothing except calling 911. So the wait can be frustrating, and its very hard to get info out of ATT.