I was quite pleased to see that the tech and the frame are held together by just a torx screw, and you can screw it onto ordinary glasses. It doesn't work very well that way, but at least it means that spectacle users are a small step away from being supported.
Ha ha, who am I kidding, I'm never going to own one of those.
timothy, you're going to have to explain how the implimentation of this feature by Apple in any way changes a developer's ability to create ransomware with similar functionality. 'Cause the way I see it, to be able to hijack the Authentication Lock, you're probably going to have to have sufficiently low-level access to just impliment your own lock.
Essentially your silence doesn't come with the legally-enshrined neutrality it receives under the fifth amendment. "It may harm your defense if you do not mention when questioned anything you later rely on in court."
Well, at one point they had a business delivering tapes of computer-selected magazine articles to people, under the original version of the patents that they're now using to sue Apple. It was a flop. I say original version because the patents were revised between that business venture and this one.
No, I'm making a reasonably accurate interpolation from the facts. I wrote that Apple Maps doesn't work for me because it's not suitable for pedestrians, and the response I got was a ramble about how Apple Maps is totally pedestrian-obsessed and some gibberish about hipsters. Clearly the response was written by someone with no reading comprehension.
That doesn't mean that Google's not the best option available. You can actually file an erratum through their web site (it takes about 2 minutes) and you get an email response when they accept/reject the changes. You can submit a correction as a text complaint, or now you can actually edit the map data directly to correct it. And in my experience within a month it's settled.
That said, very few HGV drivers I'm aware of use Google Maps, they tend to use standalone satnav systems if only because you're not dependent on a good phone signal.
I should add, the bigger issue with Apple Maps' crappy data is that geofences can silently misbehave, because the conversion from an address to a geographical location and vice versa is hidden from the user, so there's no telling if or how it has gone wrong. Bad data in the maps app is one thing, but data that makes other apps work badly is the sort of thing that shouldn't happen on an Apple device.
Well, they've got to get their maps data from somewhere, which means they're in the data industry now. The fact that Apple were bidding for Waze suggests they're stuck with it unless they decide to partner up with someone like Google again.
I gave it until the Google Maps standalone app launched, plus about a fortnight. It simply wasn't improving quickly enough in my region (which is not the US) despite my filing error reports daily. I check in on it now and then, and it took them four months to notice that the shopping centre in which one of their own stores was located was not, in fact, a large park. (In fact, most places with "park" in the name were marked out as parks, regardless of whether it made any sense...) Several other issues remain unresolved to this day.
A lot of my issues aren't with mapping data but design. It's presented like a car SATNAV with lots of POI icons for food etc. prioritised over things like road names, railway stations, major universities, etc. so while it's probably good when you're driving it's very hard to read as a pedestrian. Even the colour contrast is terrible, it's all cold-toned pastel shades for everything. That's one I can't see improving any time soon.
Waze crowdsources routefinding, which is a huge computational problem. I imagine that like Dodgeball the technology, but not the actual user experience, will ultimately be merged into the larger Google Maps crowdsourcing operation.
This is a huge blow for Apple, who simply don't have Google's mapping resources and really need a way to bootstrap their maps improvement efforts. They don't have a web based map system to draw on, and as bad as Apple Maps is, the most pernickety users - the ones most likely to file correction reports - have moved back to the Google Maps app. Well, I know I have.
(That stupid "legal" link in the corner of even the tiniest API-provided, in-app map is exactly the sort of nonsense Apple is supposed to not do!)
You say that as though it's obvious that satisfying the market demand for energy-saving solutions would be sufficient to rectify the problem, much less the optimal course of action.
When there is an outbreak of severe seasonal flu, do we merely meet the market demand for tylenol and cool packs, or do we accept a financial burden to vaccinate people and thereby reduce mortality? When we discover that simple safety measures can reduce automobile fatilites for the impactor and the impactee, do we sell them as optional extras or do we make them mandatory? When we discover that the government is spying on us, do we meet the market demand for encryption, or do we demand that they cease?
I don't think you understand the irony value. Google's defended things like its Real Name accounts requirement and Glass's camera by suggesting that people shouldn't have secrets if they've got nothing to hide, and while the secrecy of their shareholder meetings has always been ironic in that light, the conflict has never been instantiated in a piece of actual, Google-manufactured hardware before.
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I was quite pleased to see that the tech and the frame are held together by just a torx screw, and you can screw it onto ordinary glasses. It doesn't work very well that way, but at least it means that spectacle users are a small step away from being supported.
Ha ha, who am I kidding, I'm never going to own one of those.
You think a rogue carrier that doesn't obey the IMEI blacklist is going to obey a request from Apple to cancel someone's service plan?
I imagine than Mayor Bloomberg's recent meeting with major phone manufacturers may have been a factor.
timothy, you're going to have to explain how the implimentation of this feature by Apple in any way changes a developer's ability to create ransomware with similar functionality. 'Cause the way I see it, to be able to hijack the Authentication Lock, you're probably going to have to have sufficiently low-level access to just impliment your own lock.
Essentially your silence doesn't come with the legally-enshrined neutrality it receives under the fifth amendment. "It may harm your defense if you do not mention when questioned anything you later rely on in court."
Also the UK has no rule against self-incrimination, so failure to present footage that shows one in a bad light can count against someone.
Well, at one point they had a business delivering tapes of computer-selected magazine articles to people, under the original version of the patents that they're now using to sue Apple. It was a flop. I say original version because the patents were revised between that business venture and this one.
Pursuing the end users of a product which infringes upon one's patent is practically unheard-of. Why have you done so?
You don't seem to have any presence outside the US, despite apparently having invented podcasting. Why?
Werner Heisenberg to the rescue!
Somehow I totally blanked that you've actually tried to get it corrected.
No, I'm making a reasonably accurate interpolation from the facts. I wrote that Apple Maps doesn't work for me because it's not suitable for pedestrians, and the response I got was a ramble about how Apple Maps is totally pedestrian-obsessed and some gibberish about hipsters. Clearly the response was written by someone with no reading comprehension.
I didn't realise that one's qualifications were a measure of trustworthiness. We should play poker sometime. I'll deal.
I don't follow.
That doesn't mean that Google's not the best option available. You can actually file an erratum through their web site (it takes about 2 minutes) and you get an email response when they accept/reject the changes. You can submit a correction as a text complaint, or now you can actually edit the map data directly to correct it. And in my experience within a month it's settled.
That said, very few HGV drivers I'm aware of use Google Maps, they tend to use standalone satnav systems if only because you're not dependent on a good phone signal.
You're an imbecile.
Ha, maybe it'd be more apt to say it's a huge blow to my hopes that Apple would get it kicked into shape this year.
I should add, the bigger issue with Apple Maps' crappy data is that geofences can silently misbehave, because the conversion from an address to a geographical location and vice versa is hidden from the user, so there's no telling if or how it has gone wrong. Bad data in the maps app is one thing, but data that makes other apps work badly is the sort of thing that shouldn't happen on an Apple device.
Well, they've got to get their maps data from somewhere, which means they're in the data industry now. The fact that Apple were bidding for Waze suggests they're stuck with it unless they decide to partner up with someone like Google again.
I gave it until the Google Maps standalone app launched, plus about a fortnight. It simply wasn't improving quickly enough in my region (which is not the US) despite my filing error reports daily. I check in on it now and then, and it took them four months to notice that the shopping centre in which one of their own stores was located was not, in fact, a large park. (In fact, most places with "park" in the name were marked out as parks, regardless of whether it made any sense...) Several other issues remain unresolved to this day.
A lot of my issues aren't with mapping data but design. It's presented like a car SATNAV with lots of POI icons for food etc. prioritised over things like road names, railway stations, major universities, etc. so while it's probably good when you're driving it's very hard to read as a pedestrian. Even the colour contrast is terrible, it's all cold-toned pastel shades for everything. That's one I can't see improving any time soon.
Waze crowdsources routefinding, which is a huge computational problem. I imagine that like Dodgeball the technology, but not the actual user experience, will ultimately be merged into the larger Google Maps crowdsourcing operation.
This is a huge blow for Apple, who simply don't have Google's mapping resources and really need a way to bootstrap their maps improvement efforts. They don't have a web based map system to draw on, and as bad as Apple Maps is, the most pernickety users - the ones most likely to file correction reports - have moved back to the Google Maps app. Well, I know I have.
(That stupid "legal" link in the corner of even the tiniest API-provided, in-app map is exactly the sort of nonsense Apple is supposed to not do!)
You say that as though it's obvious that satisfying the market demand for energy-saving solutions would be sufficient to rectify the problem, much less the optimal course of action.
When there is an outbreak of severe seasonal flu, do we merely meet the market demand for tylenol and cool packs, or do we accept a financial burden to vaccinate people and thereby reduce mortality?
When we discover that simple safety measures can reduce automobile fatilites for the impactor and the impactee, do we sell them as optional extras or do we make them mandatory?
When we discover that the government is spying on us, do we meet the market demand for encryption, or do we demand that they cease?
I don't think you understand the irony value. Google's defended things like its Real Name accounts requirement and Glass's camera by suggesting that people shouldn't have secrets if they've got nothing to hide, and while the secrecy of their shareholder meetings has always been ironic in that light, the conflict has never been instantiated in a piece of actual, Google-manufactured hardware before.
After watching a grand piano fall on someone, would you be particularly concerned about having half a grand piano fall on you?
I wonder if there's about to be a raging business in non-US-hosted free email.