Open "Internet Sharing". Select USB | Bluetooth. Click "Connect".
That's about it.
Why do so many things that should be simple to do become so bizarrely difficult and tortuous on Apple devices? So much so, in fact, that when people figure out ways around Apple's boneheadedness it becomes "news"*?
* See also: Spontaneous cheers for introducing cut and paste on a handheld computer in 2009.
It was a manufacturer approved, carrier-issued ROM. Although I think what the homebrew firmware hackers do is great, I'd be reluctant to load a 3rd party firmware onto my primary communications device. At least, not until I'd exhausted other routes and seen a lot of satisfactory testing of the 3rd party firmware.
a task and memory management the user must control.
Here's how task management works on my WM 6.1 phone:
Most apps have an "X" button. Touch it once, briefly (like with a tap or quick push) and the app is minimized but remains memory resident. Press the "X" button for a couple of seconds, continuously, and the app quits and its memory gets freed.
In-memory apps display in a drop down hanging off the "X" button on the Home screen, and can be maximised or killed by clicking on them within the dropdown.
That's really all there is to it. There is, of course, a variety of task managers and memory managers that you can use if you are anal, but these are rarely needed. I can't remember the last time I went beyond the short/long "X" button control.
Isn't it completely fair and reasonable to charge for that?
If Apple didn't lock down the Touch and its Ipods since V5.5, then it would have been possible to load Rockbox or ipodlinux on them as an alternative boot OS and get a whole boatload of free, extra functionality.
you can't even upgrade Windows Mobile at any price
My last update for Windows Mobile (HTC 9800) bumped the version number from 6.0 to 6.1, introduced docx compatibility, and most crucially, enabled the built-in GPS (which had been dormant for a year beforehand) and upgraded the 3G radio. Now it can do spoken word turn-by-turn directions and is a little faster when used as an access point.
I'd get your phone checked. I use mine occasionally as a WiFi access point and am able to download torrents at close to 1 Mbps. I also like it for streaming, Skype, and Microsoft Portrait (video VOIP).
I drove NY->Cali last year and used a 3G Sprint phone (HTC Titan) as a music player, hooked up to the line-in on the mp3 player.
I used mainly Resco Radio (Windows Mobile software that aggregates a lot of streaming radio stations) and Last.FM as music sources. It worked okay. Even in the middle of 2G-only areas, I was able to select the lowest bandwidth streamers and still get acceptable playback.
As a bonus I was able to tether my phone at various stops to my laptop for Internet, and do video conferencing along the way. All this, plus voice, for $30/month. Sprint rules, for me anyway.
You are indeed a delightfully special little character, aren't you now? I feel that aside from your bizarrely schoolyardish taunts, we may not be using concordant meanings for the words we are exchanging. If you don't know how I define "open", how can you possibly impute its projection to my unwritten intention? How do you define "open". And how do you define "free". I suggest we use the Proudhon definitions. How about you?
I'd rather a profitable, productive company like Hitachi keep the money than the parasitic government.
Yes, what has "The Government" ever done for us? Well, except for the Internet you're using to demand a return to feudalism and the rule of nobles and strongmen, basically nothing!
The apple store is a great example of the free market at work.
The Apple Store is not a free market... it's Apple's Market. It more closely resembles a centrally planned oligopoly.
A closer approximation to a "free" market in handheld mobile sales would be Windows Mobile/Symbian/Palm, where ISVs can and do sell their applications at whatever price point they want through as many multiple channels as they want. They have been doing this for over a decade now, with very mixed results. Many sales come through single, large aggregators of products (for example, Handago) whereas other vendors seem to rely almost exclusively on carrier-specific channels or even their own tiny websites.
I agree. That's why I chose to use the adverb+verb form, rather than the simplistic (and more popular) adjective+noun form. The latter implies a single, time-constrained event of dubious provenance, whereas the former implies a continued, non-time-bound state of failure. I note that you apparently favour the adjective+noun form, which is epically weak.
Ah, I see, I'm sorry. I misunderstood what you were referring to. Usually, when people are dumping on "socialized" health care in the US, they point to the VA first, and then Medicare next. I didn't know you meant Tricare. I'm afraid I don't know that much about it.
There's a quick way to tell if someone has actually managed to motivate themselves enough to click, and that's if they epically fail to check a link to see the original source:
Figure 12 of Hauser, Robert M. 2002. "Meritocracy, cognitive ability, and the sources of occupational success." CDE Working Paper 98-07 (rev). Center for Demography and Ecology, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin. The figure is labelled "Wisconsin Men's Henmon-Nelson IQ Distributions for 1992-94 Occupation Groups with 30 Cases or More" and is found at http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cde/cdewp/98-07.pdf
I had one young doctor think I should have my moles checked out that "looked cancerous" and another doctor whom I'm also freinds with that tells me "that doctor is full of shit".
They get a lot of slagging, especially from other doctors, but this is a classic example of why dermatologists exist. They are not just for botox! The sad truth is that there are literally *hundreds* of disease processes that can manifest on the skin, but they manifest in only surprisingly small set of symptoms... many of which look very similar, if not alike. That is why pretty much every generalist or non-dermatologist would prefer to refer a patient with any kind of non-obvious skin lesion to a dermatologist. If it's something rare, you might never have seen it before, or you might have seen it once. But it's a safe bet that the derm person has seen it a few hundred times, along with thousands of similar-but-different lesions, and will have a much better chance of diagnosing it by rejecting false positives and ruling out false negatives.
The truth is doctors aren't geniuses. They sat next to you in high school. Some of them copied your answers on the math test. They are average everyday people that have been trained (hopefully well) to do a specific job.
I prefer about 5 million-fold when I can get an ebook that is simply raw text, or text with light markup. That way I can refont, reformat, resize, or reflow it to suit a particular screen, or a particular reading posture.
PDFs fail at all of this.
Manjoo's Post-Fact 1996
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The Slate guy wrote a book called True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society. For someone who could write about 1996's online activities and not mention IRC, Usenet, or the biggest story of 1996, fuckingPointCast, I think he's following his own advice.
PowWow Was First "Internet" IM
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I believe that PowWow was the first "Internet" IM program, pre-dating ICQ by a couple of years. I certainly remember downloading ICQ for the first time and thinking "Hmm, looks like PowWow but cleaner".
That's not to say, of course, that PowWow wasn't predated by the Quantum Link IM program, or talk or similar. But they were usually limited to 1:1 conversations, usually on the same mainframe or cluster. But PowWow was the first classic IM-style client. Basically every desktop PC IM client today looks like PowWow.
I drove NY->Cali last year and used a 3G Sprint phone (HTC Titan) as a music player, hooked up to the line-in on the mp3 player.
I used mainly Resco Radio (Windows Mobile software that aggregates a lot of streaming radio stations) and Last.FM as music sources. It worked okay. Even in the middle of 2G-only areas, I was able to select the lowest bandwidth streamers and still get acceptable playback. At no point did I feel a need for satellite. So, yes, even though Farhad Manjoo's articles are usually epic, pointless tales of obviousness, in this instance he's right. Satellite radio is a technology whose chance for mass market penetration passed some time ago. It is the steam-powered buggy whip of digital audio.
As a bonus I was able to tether my phone to my laptop for Internet, and do video conferencing along the way. All this, plus voice, for $30/month. Sprint rules.
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That'll free up a lot of time for 320x480 browsing.
Those browsing on 640x480 or 800x400 phones pity those fools.
Open "Internet Sharing".
Select USB | Bluetooth.
Click "Connect".
That's about it.
Why do so many things that should be simple to do become so bizarrely difficult and tortuous on Apple devices? So much so, in fact, that when people figure out ways around Apple's boneheadedness it becomes "news"*?
* See also: Spontaneous cheers for introducing cut and paste on a handheld computer in 2009.
It was a manufacturer approved, carrier-issued ROM. Although I think what the homebrew firmware hackers do is great, I'd be reluctant to load a 3rd party firmware onto my primary communications device. At least, not until I'd exhausted other routes and seen a lot of satisfactory testing of the 3rd party firmware.
a task and memory management the user must control.
Here's how task management works on my WM 6.1 phone:
Most apps have an "X" button. Touch it once, briefly (like with a tap or quick push) and the app is minimized but remains memory resident. Press the "X" button for a couple of seconds, continuously, and the app quits and its memory gets freed.
In-memory apps display in a drop down hanging off the "X" button on the Home screen, and can be maximised or killed by clicking on them within the dropdown.
That's really all there is to it. There is, of course, a variety of task managers and memory managers that you can use if you are anal, but these are rarely needed. I can't remember the last time I went beyond the short/long "X" button control.
Isn't it completely fair and reasonable to charge for that?
If Apple didn't lock down the Touch and its Ipods since V5.5, then it would have been possible to load Rockbox or ipodlinux on them as an alternative boot OS and get a whole boatload of free, extra functionality.
you can't even upgrade Windows Mobile at any price
My last update for Windows Mobile (HTC 9800) bumped the version number from 6.0 to 6.1, introduced docx compatibility, and most crucially, enabled the built-in GPS (which had been dormant for a year beforehand) and upgraded the 3G radio. Now it can do spoken word turn-by-turn directions and is a little faster when used as an access point.
This was a free upgrade.
Many people really are willing to repeat as truth everything that Jobs says.
"SOX Compliance"? So I guess that all those PDAs and MP3 players that issue firmware upgrades and *don't* charge for them are law breakers?
Please!
Apple charges users to upgrade the Touch for the same reason that it charges for OS service packs, and for online storage:
Because It Can
I'd get your phone checked. I use mine occasionally as a WiFi access point and am able to download torrents at close to 1 Mbps. I also like it for streaming, Skype, and Microsoft Portrait (video VOIP).
I drove NY->Cali last year and used a 3G Sprint phone (HTC Titan) as a music player, hooked up to the line-in on the mp3 player.
I used mainly Resco Radio (Windows Mobile software that aggregates a lot of streaming radio stations) and Last.FM as music sources. It worked okay. Even in the middle of 2G-only areas, I was able to select the lowest bandwidth streamers and still get acceptable playback.
As a bonus I was able to tether my phone at various stops to my laptop for Internet, and do video conferencing along the way. All this, plus voice, for $30/month. Sprint rules, for me anyway.
It's called SERO.
All things must pass...
You are indeed a delightfully special little character, aren't you now? I feel that aside from your bizarrely schoolyardish taunts, we may not be using concordant meanings for the words we are exchanging. If you don't know how I define "open", how can you possibly impute its projection to my unwritten intention? How do you define "open". And how do you define "free". I suggest we use the Proudhon definitions. How about you?
I'd rather a profitable, productive company like Hitachi keep the money than the parasitic government.
Yes, what has "The Government" ever done for us? Well, except for the Internet you're using to demand a return to feudalism and the rule of nobles and strongmen, basically nothing!
I'd just like to add that to settle global bribery and corruption charges, Siemens recently agreed to pay $1.6 billion in fines - ~$900m to the US, and the rest to the EU. Now that's what I call "staggering".
In 2005, Samsung paid $300m for price fixing. Hynix paid $185m. Infineon paid $160m, and four of its execs went to prison and paid $250,000 each.
In 2008, LG paid $400m in fines for price fixing. Sharp paid $120m. Chunghwa paid $65m.
So... $35m. In this context, not very "staggering".
Free isn't the same thing as open.
Where did I say "Open"?
The apple store is a great example of the free market at work.
The Apple Store is not a free market... it's Apple's Market. It more closely resembles a centrally planned oligopoly.
A closer approximation to a "free" market in handheld mobile sales would be Windows Mobile/Symbian/Palm, where ISVs can and do sell their applications at whatever price point they want through as many multiple channels as they want. They have been doing this for over a decade now, with very mixed results. Many sales come through single, large aggregators of products (for example, Handago) whereas other vendors seem to rely almost exclusively on carrier-specific channels or even their own tiny websites.
Ironically, because of the embrace by the twittering masses of the Apple Market model, many of the ISVs on the non-Apple platforms have been clamouring for their own massive, closed, centrally planned marketplaces. I suspect this is a cyclical development (with temporary dislocations of pricing, information, distribution and user naÃveté creating transient advantages for centrally planned marketplaces), but I wouldn't be surprised to see sites such as Amazon/Facebook/MySpace getting more into multi-platform software sales.
I agree. That's why I chose to use the adverb+verb form, rather than the simplistic (and more popular) adjective+noun form. The latter implies a single, time-constrained event of dubious provenance, whereas the former implies a continued, non-time-bound state of failure. I note that you apparently favour the adjective+noun form, which is epically weak.
Ah, I see, I'm sorry. I misunderstood what you were referring to. Usually, when people are dumping on "socialized" health care in the US, they point to the VA first, and then Medicare next. I didn't know you meant Tricare. I'm afraid I don't know that much about it.
There's a quick way to tell if someone has actually managed to motivate themselves enough to click, and that's if they epically fail to check a link to see the original source:
Figure 12 of Hauser, Robert M. 2002. "Meritocracy, cognitive ability, and the sources of occupational success." CDE Working Paper 98-07 (rev). Center for Demography and Ecology, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin. The figure is labelled "Wisconsin Men's Henmon-Nelson IQ Distributions for 1992-94 Occupation Groups with 30 Cases or More" and is found at http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cde/cdewp/98-07.pdf
Why do you hate social science?
I had one young doctor think I should have my moles checked out that "looked cancerous" and another doctor whom I'm also freinds with that tells me "that doctor is full of shit".
They get a lot of slagging, especially from other doctors, but this is a classic example of why dermatologists exist. They are not just for botox! The sad truth is that there are literally *hundreds* of disease processes that can manifest on the skin, but they manifest in only surprisingly small set of symptoms... many of which look very similar, if not alike. That is why pretty much every generalist or non-dermatologist would prefer to refer a patient with any kind of non-obvious skin lesion to a dermatologist. If it's something rare, you might never have seen it before, or you might have seen it once. But it's a safe bet that the derm person has seen it a few hundred times, along with thousands of similar-but-different lesions, and will have a much better chance of diagnosing it by rejecting false positives and ruling out false negatives.
Go talk to someone in the military about that whole free government provided healthcare...you get what you pay for...
I agree that the VA is underfunded relative to its size and patient population but, given its funding limitations, it's actually the best performing health system in the US when measured objectively in terms of patient outcomes.
The truth is doctors aren't geniuses. They sat next to you in high school. Some of them copied your answers on the math test. They are average everyday people that have been trained (hopefully well) to do a specific job.
MDs have a median IQ significantly higher than all other measured professions. That is to say, the average, everyday median MD IQ at ~125 is already halfway to official "genius" level.
The notion that "Doctors Hate Science" is absurd.
I prefer about 5 million-fold when I can get an ebook that is simply raw text, or text with light markup. That way I can refont, reformat, resize, or reflow it to suit a particular screen, or a particular reading posture.
PDFs fail at all of this.
The Slate guy wrote a book called True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society. For someone who could write about 1996's online activities and not mention IRC, Usenet, or the biggest story of 1996, fucking PointCast, I think he's following his own advice.
I believe that PowWow was the first "Internet" IM program, pre-dating ICQ by a couple of years. I certainly remember downloading ICQ for the first time and thinking "Hmm, looks like PowWow but cleaner".
That's not to say, of course, that PowWow wasn't predated by the Quantum Link IM program, or talk or similar. But they were usually limited to 1:1 conversations, usually on the same mainframe or cluster. But PowWow was the first classic IM-style client. Basically every desktop PC IM client today looks like PowWow.
I drove NY->Cali last year and used a 3G Sprint phone (HTC Titan) as a music player, hooked up to the line-in on the mp3 player.
I used mainly Resco Radio (Windows Mobile software that aggregates a lot of streaming radio stations) and Last.FM as music sources. It worked okay. Even in the middle of 2G-only areas, I was able to select the lowest bandwidth streamers and still get acceptable playback. At no point did I feel a need for satellite. So, yes, even though Farhad Manjoo's articles are usually epic, pointless tales of obviousness, in this instance he's right. Satellite radio is a technology whose chance for mass market penetration passed some time ago. It is the steam-powered buggy whip of digital audio.
As a bonus I was able to tether my phone to my laptop for Internet, and do video conferencing along the way. All this, plus voice, for $30/month. Sprint rules.